Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Alegre

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The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (Latin: Archidioecesis Portalegrensis in Brasilia) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil. It was erected as the Diocese of São Pedro do Rio Grande by Pope Pius IX on May 7, 1848, and elevated to the rank of a metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Pius X on August 15, 1910.

The archdiocese's motherchurch and thus seat of its archbishop is the Cathedral of Our Lady, Mother of God. The current Archbishop of Porto Alegre is His Excellency Dadeus Grings, having been appointed by Pope John Paul II on February 7, 2001.

Contents 1 List of bishops and archbishops of Porto Alegre 2 Suffragan Sees 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] List of bishops and archbishops of Porto Alegre

• Feliciano Rodrigues de Araujo Prates (1851 - 1858)
• Sebastião Dias Laranjeira (1860 - 1888)
• Cláudio Gonçalves Ponce de Leon, CM (1890 - 1912)
• João Becker (1912 - 1946)
• Alfredo Scherer (1946 - 1981)
• João Colling (1981 - 1991)
• Altamiro Rossato, CSSR (1991 - 2001)
• Dadeus Grings (2001 - present)

[edit] Suffragan Sees

• Bagé
• Cachoeira do Sul
• Caxias do Sul
• Cruz Alta
• Erexim
• Frederico Westphalen
• Novo Hamburgo
• Osório
• Passo Fundo
• Pelotas
• Rio Grande
• Santa Cruz do Sul
• Santa Maria
• Santo Ângelo
• Uruguaiana
• Vacaria.

[edit] See also

• Roman Catholicism in Brazil

[edit] External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information
• "Archdiocese of Porto Alegre". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.