Archdiocese of Joinville
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Joinville is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province in Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis, also in Santa Catarina, before the elevation to its current status in 2024.
Its cathedral is Catedral São Francisco Xavier, dedicated to saint Francis Xavier, in the city of Joinville.
History
- Established on 17 January 1927 as Diocese of Joinville, on territory split off from the Diocese of Santa Caterina.
- Lost territories repeatedly : on 1968.11.23 to establish the Diocese of [Rio do Sul] and on 2000.04.19 to establish the Diocese of Blumenau
- On 5 November 2024, Pope Francis elevated the Diocese of Joinville to a metropolitan archdiocese upon the erection of the Ecclesiastical province of Joinville. The two suffragan dioceses are Rio do Sul and Blumenau.
Statistics
As per 2014, it pastorally served 744,219 Catholics on 9,508 km2 in 53 parishes and 5 missions with 118 priests, 55 deacons, 228 lay religious and 26 seminarians.Bishops
Episcopal ordinaries
;Suffragan Bishops of Joinville- Pio de Freitas Silveira, Congregation of the Mission, emeritate as Titular Bishop of Voncaria
- *Apostolic Administrator Inácio Krause, C.M., while Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Curitiba, died 1984; previously only Apostolic Prefect of Shundefu 順德府, Titular Bishop of Binda as only Apostolic Vicar of Shundefu 順德府, promoted first Suffragan Bishop of Shunde 順德
- Gregório Warmeling, died 1997
- Orlando Brandes, next Metropolitan Archbishop of Londrina, Metropolitan Archbishop of Aparecida
- Irineu Roque Scherer, previously Bishop of Garanhuns
- Francisco Carlos Bach, previously Bishop of Toledo, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais and Apostolic Administrator of Diocese of Paranaguá .
- Francisco Carlos Bach
Coadjutor bishop
- Inácio João Dal Monte, O.F.M. Cap., did not succeed to see; appointed Bishop of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais