Diocese of Paraíba

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The Archdiocese of Paraiba is the Latin Rite metropolitan see based in Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Listed as a diocese in the source data, it is in fact an archdiocese and the metropolitan of its own ecclesiastical province, currently led by Archbishop Manoel Delson Pedreira da Cruz.

Archbishop
Manoel Delson Pedreira da Cruz
Latin name
Parahyben(sis)
Erected
27 April 1892
Cathedral
Catedral Basilica Metropolitana Nossa Senhora das Neves
Patron
Our Lady of the Snows
Rank
Metropolitan See
Rite
Latin
Province
Paraiba
Chancery
Cúria Metropolitana, Praça Dom Adauto s/n, 58010-670 João Pessoa, PB, Brasil
Telephone
Tel. [083]3133-1000; fax 3133-1029
Email
[email protected]

Contact as printed in the Annuario Pontificio.

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Sources: wikidata-p488,annuario · Annuario code 001002538 · ontology v0.3.2 · updated 2026-06-08

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