Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará

History

• March 4, 1720: Established as Diocese of Belém do Pará from Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão
• May 1, 1906: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará

  Special churches

• Minor Basilicas:
• *Basílica Nossa Senhora de Nazaré do Desterro

  Bishops

Episcopal ordinaries

Bishops of Belém do Pará

1. Bartolomeu do Pilar, OCarm
2. Guilherme de São José Antonio de Aranha
3. Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, OP
4. João de São José de Queiroz da Silveira, OSB
5. João Evangelista Pereira da Silva, TOR
6. Cayetano Da Annunciação Brandão, TOR, appointed Archbishop of Braga
7. Manoel de Almeida de Carvalho
8. Romualdo de Souza Coelho
9. José Affonso de Moraes Torres, CM
10. Antônio de Macedo Costa, appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
11. Jerônimo Tomé da Silva, appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
12. Antônio Manoel de Castilho Brandão, Appointed Bishop of Alagôas
13. Francisco do Rego Maia
14. José Marcondes Homem de Melo

    Archbishops of Belém do Pará

15. José Marcondes Homem de Melo
16. Santino Maria da Silva Coutinho, appointed Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
17. João Irineu Joffily
18. Antônio de Almeida Lustosa, SDB, appointed Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
19. Jaime de Barros Câmara, appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
20. Mário de Miranda Villas-Boas, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
21. Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos
22. Vicente Joaquim Zico, CM
23. Orani João Tempesta, OCist, appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
24. Alberto Taveira Corrêa

    Coadjutor Bishops

• Miguel de Bulhões e Souza, O.P.
• Vicente Joaquim Zico, C.M.

  Auxiliary Bishops

• Milton Corrêa Pereira, appointed Bishop of Garanhuns, Pernambuco
• Tadeu Henrique Prost, O.F.M.
• Alano Maria Pena, O.P., appointed Coadjutor Prelate of Marabá, Para
• Carlos Verzeletti, appointed Bishop of Castanhal, Para
• Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp., appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Para
• Irineu Roman, C.S.I., appointed Archbishop of Santarém, Para
• Antônio de Assis Ribeiro, S.D.B.

  Other priest of this diocese who became bishop

• Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos, appointed Bishop of Amazonas in 1948; later returned here as Archbishop

  Suffragan dioceses

• Diocese of Abaetetuba
• Diocese of Bragança do Pará
• Diocese of Cametá, formerly Territorial Prelature of Cametá
• Diocese of Castanhal
• Diocese of Macapá
• Diocese of Marabá
• Diocese of Ponta de Pedras
• Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
• Territorial Prelature of Itaituba
• Territorial Prelature of Marajó