Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florianópolis
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Florianópolis is an archdiocese located in the city of Florianópolis in Brazil.History
Ordinaries
- Bishops of Santa Caterina
- * João Batista Becker, appointed Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
- * João Borges Quintão, C.M., did not take effect
- * Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira
- Archbishops of Florianópolis
- * Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira
- * Alfonso Niehues
- * Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I. Dehonians, appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
- * Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, S.C.J., appointed Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
- * Wilson Tadeu Jönck, S.C.I.
Coadjutor archbishops
- Félix César da Cunha Vasconcellos, O.F.M., did not succeed to see; qppointed Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo
- Alfonso Niehues
Auxiliary bishops
- Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, S.C.I., appointed Archbishop here
- Vito Schlickmann
- Giuseppe Negri, P.I.M.E., appointed Bishop of Blumenau, Santa Catarina
Other priests of this diocese who became bishops
- Jaime de Barros Câmara, appointed Bishop of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte in 1935; future Cardinal
- Wilson Laus Schmidt, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro in 1957
- Manoel João Francisco, appointed Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina in 1998
- Augustinho Petry, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brazil, Military in 2000
- João Francisco Salm, appointed Bishop of Tubarão, Santa Catarina in 2012
Suffragan dioceses
- Diocese of Blumenau
- Diocese of Caçador
- Diocese of Chapecó
- Diocese of Criciúma
- Diocese of Joaçaba
- Diocese of Joinville
- Diocese of Lages
- Diocese of Rio do Sul
- Diocese of Tubarão
