Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife
Olinden(sis) et Recifen(sis)
Metropolitan see · Latin Church · Olinda e Recife, Brazil
The Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife is a Latin Church metropolitan see in the state of Pernambuco, originating as a prelature in 1614 and raised to an archdiocese in 1910. Archbishop Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa, who took office in 2023, leads the province as metropolitan over nine suffragan dioceses.
The see
- Rank
- Metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 16 November 1676
- Latin
- Olinden(sis) et Recifen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001002451
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 3,800,000
- Population
- 3,570,703
- Priests
- 365
- Catholics per priest
- 10,411
- Extent
- 4,305 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 883
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
- Archbishop
- Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa
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
Catedral Metropolitana de São Salvador do Mundo stands in Olinda e Recife, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Catedral de São Pedro dos Clérigos.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Olinda e Recife
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Afogados da IngazeiraAfogados da Ingazeira
- Diocese of CaruaruCaruaru
- Diocese of FlorestaFloresta
- Diocese of GaranhunsGaranhuns
- Diocese of NazaréNazaré
- Diocese of PalmaresPalmares
- Diocese of PesqueiraPesqueira
- Diocese of PetrolinaPetrolina
- Diocese of SalgueiroSalgueiro
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In Pernambuco state, in northeast Brazil, stands the Latin metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Olindensis et Recifensis).
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].