Catholic Church in Brazil

Catholic Church in Brazil
Portuguese: Igreja Católica no Brasil
The Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Aparecida It is the second largest church in the world, after St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
Type	National polity
Classification	Catholic
Orientation	Latin
Scripture	Bible
Theology	Catholic theology
Polity	Episcopal
Governance	CNBB
Pope	Francis
President	Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Primate	Sérgio da Rocha
Region	Brazil
Language	Portuguese, Latin
Headquarters	Brasília
Origin	c 1500 Colonial Brazil, Portuguese Empire
Separations	Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church
Members	123 million - 127 million[1][2] - 134 million[3] - 140 million[4][5]
Official website	CNBB

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The Brazilian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Brazil, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the influential National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Portuguese: Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil - CNBB), composed of over 400 primary and auxiliary bishops and archbishops. There are over 250 dioceses (both of the Latin and Eastern rites) and other territorial jurisdictions in Brazil. The primate of Brazil is Dom Sérgio da Rocha.

The Catholic Church is the largest denomination in the country, where 123 million people,^[6] or 64.6% of the Brazilian population, were self-declared Catholics in 2010.^[7] These figures made Brazil the single country with the largest Catholic community in the world.^[8][9][10] In a 2022 report from the US Department of State, Catholics made up 50% of the population;^[11] in a separate 2020 report from the Association of Religion Data Archives, Catholics made up 70.57% of the population.^[12]