Ordinariate for the Faithful of Eastern Rites in Brazil

Ordinariate of Ordinariate to Eastern Catholics in Brazil
Location
Country Brazil
Population
- Catholics
(as of 1998)
10,000
Information
Established 14 November 1951
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Emeritus Bishops Eusébio Oscar Scheid

Ordinariate of Brazil for the faithful of the Eastern rite is a diocese of the Catholic Church immediately subject to the Holy See. In 1998 there were 10,000 baptized. It is currently governed by Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte.

Territory and statistics

The diocese includes all the faithful of the Eastern Catholic rites of Brazil without its own jurisdiction. The Ordinariate's seat is the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The territory is divided into four parishes and there were 10,000 Catholics belonged to this Ordinariate.

History

The Ordinariate was erected on November 14, 1951 with the decree Cum fidelium[1] of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which gave effect to a decision ex audientia of Pope Pius XII took on 26 October 1950.

Subsequently, some Churches sui iuris erected their ecclesiastical districts:

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