Diocese of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo
Dominae Nostrae Libanen(sis) S. Pauli Maronitarum
Suffragan eparchy · Latin Church · São Paulo, Brazil
The Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo is a Maronite Catholic eparchy covering all Maronite faithful in Brazil, with its see in São Paulo. It originated as an apostolic exarchate in 1962 and was raised to an eparchy on 29 November 1971.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 29 November 1971
- Latin
- Dominae Nostrae Libanen(sis) S. Pauli Maronitarum
- Patron
- Our Lady of Lebanon
- Annuario code
- 001002408
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 489,000
- Population
- 2,013
- Priests
- 14
- Catholics per priest
- 34,929
- Extent
- 8,515,770 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.1
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Edgard Madi
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral stands in São Paulo, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Serving the Maronite Church in Brazil, this eparchy (Portuguese: Eparquia Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo; Latin: Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Libanensis Sancti Pauli Maronitarum) has its episcopal see in São Paulo. Edgard Madi is the current bishop. The eparchy stands as a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of São Paulo, itself a Latin Church archdiocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Cúria Eparquial, Rua Tamandaré 355, Liberdade, 01525-001 São Paulo, SP, Brasil
- Telephone
- [011]3208-2904
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].