Catholic Church in Brazil
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The Brazilian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Brazil, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the influential National Conference of Bi
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Aparecida. It's the second largest Catholic church in the world, after St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
The Final Mass of the World Youth Day 2013, at Copacabana Beach. Pope Francis was the third Pope to visit Brazil.
Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil
Statues of saints in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais
Sérgio da Rocha
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Sérgio da Rocha is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and the Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia since 11 March 2020. He has been a bishop since 2001, first
Catholic Church in Brazil
…There are 44 ecclesiastical provinces, which have 275 dioceses, eparchies, ordinariates, and territorial prelatures in Brazil. The primate of Brazil is Dom Sérgio da Rocha. The Catholic Church is the largest denomination in the country, where 119 million people, or 56.75% of the Brazilian population, were self-declared…
Rocha in 2011