Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife

Special churches

• Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is a World Heritage Site : Catedral Metropolitana São Salvador do Mundo, in Olinda
• Its Co-Cathedral is São Pedro dos Clérigos, dedicated to Saint Peter of Clerics, in Recife
• Further it has Minor Basilicas :
• * Basílica Abacial do Mosteiro de São Bento de Olinda, in Olinda
• * Basílica de Nossa Senhora do Carmo, in Recife
• * Basílica Nossa Senhora de Penha, Pernambuco
• * Basílica Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Recife
• * Basílica Santuário de Nossa Senhora Auxiliadora, in Jaboatão dos Guararapes
• Historic churches
• *Capela Dourada, Recife
• *Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição dos Militares, Recife
• *Igreja dos Santos Cosme e Damião, Igarassu
• *Igreja e Convento de Santo Antônio, Igarassu

History

• Established on 17 July 1614 as Territorial Prelature of Pernambuco, on territory split off from the then Diocese of São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos
• Promoted on 11 November 1676 and renamed after its see as Diocese of Olinda
• Lost territories repeatedly: on 1677.08.30 to establish Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão, on 1854.06.06 to establish Diocese of Ceará, on 1892.04.27 to establish Diocese of Paraiba and on 1900.07.02 to establish Diocese of Alagôas
• Promoted on 5 December 1910 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda, having lost territory to establish the Diocese of Floresta, its suffragan
• Renamed on 26 July 1918 as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife, reflecting its double see
• Lost territories repeatedly again : on 1918.08.02 to establish Diocese of Garanhuns and Diocese of Nazaré, on 1948.08.07 to establish Diocese of Caruaru, and on 1962.01.13 to establish Diocese of Palmares.

Ecclesiastical province

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Afogados da Ingazeira
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Caruaru
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Floresta, a daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Garanhuns, a daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Nazaré, a daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Palmares, its junior daughter
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesqueira
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Petrolina
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Salgueiro

Statistics

Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

• Estevão Brioso de Figueiredo, next Bishop of Funchal João Duarte do Sacramento not possessed
• Matias de Figueiredo e Mello
• Francisco de Lima, previously Bishop of São Luís do Maranhão
• Manuel Alvares da Costa, next Bishop of Angra
• José de Fialho, next Metropolitan Archbishop of (São Salvador da) Bahia, Archbishop-Bishop of Guarda
• Luiz de Santa Teresa da Cruz Salgado de Castilho
• Francisco Xavier Aranha, previously Titular Bishop of Thermopylæ as Coadjutor Bishop of Olinda
• Francisco da Assumpção e Brito, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa, died 1808
• Tomaz da Encarnação da Costa e Lima
• Diego de Jesus Jardim, next Bishop of Elvas
• José Joaquim da Cunha Azeredo Coutinho, next Bishop of Elvas
• José Maria de Araújo
• Antônio de São José Bastos
• ? Tomaz de Noronha e Brito
• ? Tomas Manoel de Noronha e Britto
• João da Purificação Marques Perdigão, previously Bishop of Cochin ; died 1874
• Francisco Cardoso Aires
• Vital Maria Gonçalves de Oliveira
• José Pereira da Silva Barros, appointed Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
• João Fernando Santiago Esberard, appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
• Manoel dos Santos Pereira
• Luís Raimundo da Silva Brito

• Luís Raimundo da Silva Brito
• Sebastião (Leme) da Silveira Cintra

• Sebastião (Leme) da Silveira Cintra, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro; future Cardinal
• Miguel de Lima Valverde †
• Antônio de Almeida Moraes Junior †, appointed Archbishop of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
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• Helder Pessoa Câmara †, world-famous liberation theology icon
• José Cardoso Sobrinho
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• Paulo Jackson Nóbrega de Sousa

Coadjutor bishops

• Coadjutor Bishop: Francisco Xavier Aranha
• Coadjutor Bishop: João Fernando Santiago Esberard ; future Archbishop
• Coadjutor Archbishop: João Irineu Joffily, did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Amazonas
• Coadjutor Archbishop: João Batista Portocarrero Costa, did not succeed to see

Auxiliary bishops

• Auxiliary Bishop: José Lamartine Soares, appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
• Auxiliary Bishop: Hilário Moser, appointed Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina
• Auxiliary Bishop: João Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J., appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal
• Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Fernando Antônio Saburido, O.S.B., appointed Bishop of Sobral, Ceara

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops

• Jerónimo Thomé da Silva, appointed Bishop of Belém do Pará in 1890
• Francisco do Rêgo Maia, appointed Bishop of Niterói in 1893
• Augusto Álvaro da Silva, appointed Bishop of Floresta in 1912; future Cardinal
• Ricardo Ramos de Castro Vilela, appointed Bishop of Nazaré, Pernambuco in 1919
• João Tavares de Moura, appointed Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco in 1919
• José Pereira Alves, appointed Bishop of Natal in 1922