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Suffragan eparchy São Paulo, Brazil

Diocese of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo

Dominae Nostrae Libanen(sis) S. Pauli Maronitarum

Maronite Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral, in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Established
1971
Catholics
489,000
Priests
14
Territory
8,515,770 km²

Parishes and churches

11 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Eparch
Edgard Madi

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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.