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Metropolitan see Palmas, Brazil

Archdiocese of Palmas

Palmen(sis) in Brasilia

Latin Church

The Archdiocese of Palmas is a Latin Church metropolitan see in the state of Tocantins, erected as a metropolitan archdiocese in 1996. Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimarães, appointed in 2010, leads the province as metropolitan over five suffragan dioceses.

On the map

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The address the register holds for Catedral Metropolitana do Divino Espírito Santo, in Palmas, Brazil.

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Established
1996
Catholics
203,000
Priests
100
Territory
29,938 km²

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Pedro Brito Guimarães

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The cathedral

Catedral Metropolitana do Divino Espírito Santo stands in Palmas, 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

The city of Palmas in Brazil is the seat of an archdiocese known in Latin as Archidioecesis Palmensis in Brasilia.

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