Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia

The Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia is part of the Catholic Church in Brazil. The Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia also carries the title Primate of Brazil. The archdiocese is located in the city of Salvador, Bahia.
The Archdiocese offers a wide range of services to complement parish provision. These are listed on the Archdiocesan website. These include, for example, the Pastoral do Menor service working together with CEIFAR in Tancredo Neves to support young people and families by providing guidance on sexuality and family planning

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Statistics

Over 70% of the Archiocese is Catholic, while there is over 9,000 Catholics per priest, spread over 109 parishes with the Archdiocese.

History

25 February 1551: Established as Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Funchal, Portugal
16 November 1676: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia

Properties

Minor Basilica & World Heritage Church:
* Cathedral of Salvador
* Basilica of St. Sebastian, Salvador
* Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim, Salvador
* Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Salvador
Churches
*Church of Our Lady of Penha, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Church of the Blessed Sacrament of Saint Anne, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Church and Convent of Our Lady of the Exile, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Chapel of Our Lady of Help, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Chapel of Our Lady of the Ladder, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows on the Ilha de Maré, a national heritage site
*Church and Monastery of Our Lady of Monserrate, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Church and Hospice of Our Lady of the Good Journey, a national heritage site in Salvador
*Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew, a national heritage site in Maragogipe
Residences
*Archbishop's Palace of Salvador

Former properties

The archdiocese abandoned the Church of the Third Order of the Holy Trinity in 1990. The church now houses a social project and Catholic residential community.

Bishops

Ordinaries

;Bishops

Pedro Fernandes Sardinha
Pedro Leitão
Antônio Barreiros
Constantino Barradas
Marcos Teixeira de Mendonça
Miguel Pereira
Pedro da Silva Sampaio
Estevão dos Santos Carneiro de Moraes
Constantino Sampaio
Estevão dos Santos Carneiro de Moraes

;Archbishops

Gaspar Barata de Mendonça
João da Madre de Deus Araújo
Manoel da Ressurreição
João Franco de Oliveira, appointed Archbishop of Miranda, Portugal
Sebastião Monteiro da Vida
Ludovico Alvares de Figueiredo
José de Fialho
José Botelho de Matos
Manoel de Santa Ines Ferreira
Joaquim Borges de Figueroa
Antônio de São José Moura Marinho
Antônio Corrêa
José de Santa Escolástica Álvares Pereira
Francisco de São Damazo Abreu Vieira
Vicente da Soledade e Castro
Romualdo Antônio de Seixas Barroso
Manoel Joaquim da Silveira
Joaquim Gonçalves de Azevedo
Luiz Antônio dos Santos
Antônio de Macedo Costa
Jerónimo Thomé da Silva
Augusto Álvaro da Silva, Cardinal in 1953
Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Cardinal in 1969; appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Avelar Brandão Vilela, Cardinal in 1973
Lucas Moreira Neves, Cardinal in 1988; appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Cardinal in 2001
Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger
Sérgio da Rocha, Cardinal in 2016

Coadjutor archbishop

João de Souza Lima, did not succeed to see

Auxiliary bishops

Manoel dos Santos Pereira, appointed Bishop of Olinda
Antônio de Mendonça Monteiro, appointed Bishop of Bonfim, Bahia
José Terceiro de Sousa, appointed Bishop of Penedo, Alagoas
Walfrido Teixeira Vieira, appointed Bishop of Sobral, Ceara
Adriano Mandarino Hypólito, O.F.M., appointed Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro
Valfredo Bernardo Tepe, O.F.M., appointed Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia
Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap., appointed Prelate of Coxim, Mato Grosso do Sul
Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M., appointed Bishop of Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul
José Carlos Melo, C.M., became Archbishop in 1999; appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques, appointed Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, appointed Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Dominique Marie Jean Denis You, appointed Bishop of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
Josafá Menezes da Silva, appointed Bishop of Barreiras, Bahia
João Carlos Petrini, appointed Bishop of Camaçari, Bahia
Gregório Paixão Neto, appointed Bishop of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro
Gilson Andrade da Silva, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro
Giovanni Crippa, I.M.C., appointed Bishop of Estância, Sergipe
Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida
Estevam dos Santos Silva Filho, appointed Bishop of Ruy Barbosa, Bahia
Hélio Pereira dos Santos
Dorival Souza Barreto Júnior, appointed Bishop of Januária
Gabriel dos Santos Filho
Gilvan Pereira Rodrigues

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

Manoel da Silva Gomes, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Fortaleza in 1911
Miguel de Lima Valverde, appointed Bishop of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul in 1911