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Eastern metropolitan see Curitiba, Brazil

Archeparchy of São João Batista em Curitiba

Sancti Ioannis Baptistae Curitiben(sis)

Saint John the Baptist in Curitiba is the Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Byzantine rite) metropolitan archeparchy for Brazil, seated in Curitiba, Parana. Erected as an apostolic exarchate in 1962 and raised to a metropolitan archeparchy on 29 November 1971, it is not a Latin Rite see; its sole suffragan is the Eparchy of Prudentopolis. The current archeparch is Volodymyr (Valdomiro) Koubetch, O.S.B.M.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Ukrainian Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, in Curitiba, Brazil.

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Established
1962
Catholics
162,000
Priests
40

Parishes and churches

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

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The bishop

Archbishop
Valdomiro Koubetch

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The cathedral

Ukrainian Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist stands in Curitiba, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Curitiba in Brazil is home to this Ukrainian Greek Catholic archeparchy, the Archparchy or Archdiocese of (São João Batista em) Curitiba (Latin: Archparchia Sancti Ioannis Baptistae Curitibensis Ucrainorum), which also serves as the metropolitan see of a Ukrainian Greek Catholic ecclesiastical province there. That province counts a single suffragan: the Eparchy of Imaculada Conceição in Prudentópolis (Ukrainian).