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Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão

Sancti Ludovici in Maragnano

Metropolitan see · Latin Church · São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil

Latin Catholic metropolitan see in Maranhão, Brazil, erected as a diocese in 1677 and elevated to an archdiocese in 1921. Its cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of Victory, is part of the São Luís historic center UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The see

Rank
Metropolitan see
Tradition
Latin Church
Erected
30 August 1677
Latin
Sancti Ludovici in Maragnano
Patron
Our Lady of Victory
Annuario code
001002996

The see in figures

Catholics
887,000
Population
1,195,000
Catholic share
74.2%

of the people living within its bounds

Priests
81
Catholics per priest
10,951
Extent
11,622 km²
Catholics per km²
76

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
Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira

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 Nossa Senhora da Vitória stands in São Luís do Maranhão, 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.

The province of São Luís do Maranhão

This see is the metropolitan of its province.

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

A Latin archdiocese in Brazil, São Luís do Maranhão carries the Latin title Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici in Maragnano. Its cathedral, the Catedral de São Luís do Maranhão in the city of São Luís do Maranhão, is a World Heritage Site (Minor). The see was raised to an archdiocese on 2 December 1921 by decree of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation, and then to a metropolitan see on 10 February 1922 through the bull Rationi congruit of Pope Pius XI.

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.

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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].