Brazil

Statistics by Diocese

by General Population

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#	Catholics	Population	Percent Catholic	Diocese	Year	Source
1	5,935,807	7,075,547	83.89%	São Paulo (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
2	3,556,095	5,857,895	60.71%	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
3	3,162,539	4,216,719	75.00%	Belo Horizonte (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
4	3,371,975	3,570,703	94.43%	Olinda e Recife (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
5	2,495,439	3,544,658	70.40%	São Salvador da Bahia (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
6	2,406,000	3,400,657	70.75%	Fortaleza (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
7	2,475,398	3,306,657	74.86%	Porto Alegre (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
8	1,868,722	2,983,150	62.64%	Vitória (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
9	2,600,000	2,850,000	91.23%	Campo Limpo	2004	ap2005
10	1,900,000	2,800,000	67.86%	Santo Amaro	2004	ap2005
11	2,000,000	2,771,731	72.16%	Curitiba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
12	2,198,284	2,648,534	83.00%	São Miguel Paulista	2004	ap2005
13	2,102,100	2,354,722	89.27%	Santo André	2004	ap2005
14	1,634,696	2,169,688	75.34%	Campo Grande (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
15	1,786,420	2,160,175	82.70%	Osasco	2004	ap2005
16	1,277,516	2,094,288	61.00%	Niterói (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
17	1,704,000	2,068,836	82.37%	Belém do Pará (Archdiocese)	2005	bul:29Dec2004
18	1,417,181	2,064,553	68.64%	Brasília (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
19	1,627,542	1,923,667	84.61%	Natal (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
20	1,217,300	1,850,000	65.80%	Goiânia (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
21	1,023,000	1,755,770	58.27%	Nova Iguaçu	2004	ap2005
22	1,235,281	1,698,360	72.73%	Campinas (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
23	1,310,551	1,530,874	85.61%	Santos	2004	ap2005
24	944,100	1,452,476	65.00%	Maceió (Archdiocese)	2003	ap2004
25	1,200,000	1,405,835	85.36%	Manaus (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
26	966,438	1,243,807	77.70%	Florianópolis (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
27	1,030,416	1,240,022	83.10%	Paraíba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
28	976,000	1,235,626	78.99%	Duque de Caxias	2004	ap2005
29	596,565	1,233,890	48.35%	Mogi das Cruzes	2004	ap2005
30	790,000	1,220,000	64.75%	Guarulhos	2004	ap2005
31	887,000	1,195,000	74.23%	São Luís do Maranhão (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
32	1,045,482	1,194,882	87.50%	Feira de Santana (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
33	924,266	1,099,136	84.09%	Mariana (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
34	930,000	1,080,395	86.08%	Aracajú (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
35	958,197	1,052,564	91.03%	Teresina (Archdiocese)	2003	ap2004
36	750,000	1,000,000	75.00%	Bragança Paulista	2004	ap2005
37	846,119	995,434	85.00%	Jundiaí	2004	ap2005
38	763,246	988,326	77.23%	Piracicaba	2004	ap2005
39	854,000	986,000	86.61%	Campos	2004	ap2005
40	721,338	961,783	75.00%	Novo Hamburgo	2004	ap2005
41	723,371	951,086	76.06%	São Carlos	2004	ap2005
42	632,706	949,059	66.67%	Limeira	2004	ap2005
43	608,430	936,046	65.00%	Joinville	2004	ap2005
44	654,789	935,414	70.00%	Sorocaba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
45	742,100	927,625	80.00%	Ribeirão Preto (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
46	750,000	920,000	81.52%	Crato	2004	ap2005
47	768,261	904,261	84.96%	Nazaré	2004	ap2005
48	658,800	900,000	73.20%	Londrina (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
49	699,780	900,000	77.75%	São José dos Campos	2004	ap2005
50	731,554	863,713	84.70%	Sobral	2004	ap2005
51	637,844	850,458	75.00%	São José do Rio Preto	2004	ap2005
52	774,100	832,365	93.00%	Penedo	2004	ap2005
53	720,000	830,118	86.73%	Campina Grande	2003	ap2004
54	793,000	825,000	96.12%	Mossoró	2004	ap2005
55	572,711	818,159	70.00%	Guaxupé	2004	ap2005
56	598,000	810,000	73.83%	Uberlândia	2004	ap2005
57	700,000	809,631	86.46%	Cuiabá (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
58	600,000	760,000	78.95%	Franca	2004	ap2005
59	595,000	760,000	78.29%	Petrópolis	2004	ap2005
60	668,232	742,481	90.00%	Caxias do Sul	2004	ap2005
61	556,525	742,034	75.00%	Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda	2004	ap2005
62	549,509	732,679	75.00%	Montes Claros (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
63	660,580	730,918	90.38%	Pouso Alegre (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
64	496,798	728,917	68.16%	Itabira-Fabriciano	2004	ap2005
65	610,281	724,794	84.20%	Caruaru	2004	ap2005
66	542,249	724,619	74.83%	Vitória da Conquista (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
67	690,000	720,000	95.83%	Caxias do Maranhão	2004	ap2005
68	480,000	709,938	67.61%	Ji-Paraná	2004	ap2005
69	560,000	700,000	80.00%	Dourados	2004	ap2005
70	500,000	700,000	71.43%	Luziânia	2004	ap2005
71	500,000	698,423	71.59%	Chapecó	2004	ap2005
72	444,081	693,185	64.06%	Uberaba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
73	493,179	690,436	71.43%	Ilhéus	2004	ap2005
74	405,000	688,306	58.84%	Castanhal	2004	ap2005
75	586,474	681,740	86.03%	Divinópolis	2004	ap2005
76	524,000	680,000	77.06%	Alagoinhas	2004	ap2005
77	618,351	678,221	91.17%	Caetité	2004	ap2005
78	533,000	667,000	79.91%	Juiz de Fora (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
79	598,000	664,958	89.93%	Porto Velho (Archdiocese)	2000	ap2004
80	647,433	662,483	97.73%	Campanha	2004	ap2005
81	522,000	652,850	79.96%	Marília	2004	ap2005
82	600,000	650,000	92.31%	Itabuna	2004	ap2005
83	585,000	650,000	90.00%	Petrolina	2004	ap2005
84	546,838	643,339	85.00%	Ponta Grossa	2004	ap2005
85	539,630	637,280	84.68%	Caratinga	2004	ap2005
86	546,000	635,000	85.98%	Itapetininga	2004	ap2005
87	561,941	625,148	89.89%	Bonfim	2004	ap2005
88	503,000	620,000	81.13%	Nova Friburgo	2004	ap2005
89	534,485	614,485	86.98%	Eunápolis	2004	ap2005
90	367,165	611,943	60.00%	Cachoeiro do Itapemirim	2004	ap2005
91	428,157	611,654	70.00%	Maringá (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
92	488,698	601,215	81.29%	Paulo Afonso	2004	ap2005
93	550,627	597,249	92.19%	Bragança do Pará	2005	ap2005
94	494,000	595,219	82.99%	Taubaté	2004	ap2005
95	486,864	586,584	83.00%	Diamantina (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
96	465,545	581,932	80.00%	São João da Boa Vista	2004	ap2005
97	500,000	580,000	86.21%	Jequié	2004	ap2005
98	543,367	573,331	94.77%	Garanhuns	2003	ap2004
99	450,578	563,223	80.00%	Guarapuava	2004	ap2005
100	470,000	559,673	83.98%	Palmeira dos Índios	2004	ap2005
101	490,787	557,707	88.00%	Palmas-Francisco Beltrão	2004	ap2005
102	537,000	552,042	97.28%	Amargosa	2004	ap2005
103	495,000	550,000	90.00%	Parnaíba	2004	ap2005
104	460,000	550,000	83.64%	Viana	2004	ap2005
105	315,000	543,732	57.93%	Pelotas	2004	ap2005
106	390,264	540,242	72.24%	Blumenau	2004	ap2005
107	447,502	537,002	83.33%	Santa Cruz do Sul	2004	ap2005
108	507,278	533,909	95.01%	Cajazeiras	2004	ap2005
109	370,000	533,000	69.42%	Marabá	2004	ap2005
110	430,000	530,000	81.13%	Jataí	2004	ap2005
111	473,000	530,000	89.25%	Sinop	2004	ap2005
112	393,735	529,162	74.41%	Patos de Minas	2004	ap2005
113	396,865	529,154	75.00%	Leopoldina	2004	ap2005
114	468,000	520,000	90.00%	São João del Rei	2004	ap2005
115	486,086	512,313	94.88%	Iguatú	2004	ap2005
116	470,000	511,445	91.90%	Presidente Prudente	2004	ap2005
117	389,000	508,000	76.57%	Santo Ângelo	2004	ap2005
118	467,742	505,787	92.48%	Serrinha	2005	bul21Sep05
119	350,000	500,000	70.00%	Governador Valadares	2004	ap2005
120	362,135	492,031	73.60%	Teófilo Otoni	2004	ap2005
121	451,000	490,261	91.99%	Bacabal	2004	ap2005
122	366,397	488,530	75.00%	Passo Fundo	2004	ap2005
123	382,247	488,258	78.29%	Santa Maria	2004	ap2005
124	402,231	484,916	82.95%	Criciúma	2004	ap2005
125	435,699	484,111	90.00%	Limoeiro do Norte	2004	ap2005
126	387,151	483,938	80.00%	Colatina	2004	ap2005
127	383,589	479,487	80.00%	Coroatá	2004	ap2005
128	376,000	470,000	80.00%	Imperatriz	2004	ap2005
129	295,000	470,000	62.77%	Irecê	2004	ap2005
130	422,739	469,710	90.00%	Bauru	2004	ap2005
131	398,800	465,800	85.62%	Apucarana	2004	ap2005
132	325,648	465,212	70.00%	Anápolis	2004	ap2005
133	415,131	461,475	89.96%	Araçatuba	2004	ap2005
134	356,658	448,062	79.60%	Rio Branco	2004	ap2005
135	410,000	448,000	91.52%	Brejo	2004	ap2005
136	402,933	446,606	90.22%	Itapipoca	2004	ap2005
137	352,800	441,000	80.00%	Luz	2004	ap2005
138	320,000	435,854	73.42%	Jaboticabal	2004	ap2005
139	369,000	435,308	84.77%	Botucatu (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
140	348,192	435,240	80.00%	Pinheiro	2004	ap2005
141	323,062	434,887	74.29%	Uruguaiana	2004	ap2005
142	421,152	431,127	97.69%	Estância	2004	ap2005
143	304,426	428,339	71.07%	São Mateus	2004	ap2005
144	303,729	427,066	71.12%	Abaetetuba	2004	ap2005
145	371,504	426,577	87.09%	Jacarezinho	2004	ap2005
146	364,765	423,708	86.09%	Juazeiro	2004	ap2005
147	270,913	423,589	63.96%	Palmares	2004	ap2005
148	358,000	421,840	84.87%	Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa)	2004	ap2005
149	203,468	415,242	49.00%	Santarém	2004	ap2005
150	287,700	411,657	69.89%	Cametá (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
151	378,485	411,397	92.00%	Tianguá	2004	ap2005
152	370,200	410,200	90.25%	Pesqueira	2004	ap2005
153	363,000	405,000	89.63%	Foz do Iguaçu	2004	ap2005
154	343,930	404,623	85.00%	Guarabira	2004	ap2005
155	315,000	404,600	77.85%	Tocantinópolis	2004	ap2005
156	316,570	402,770	78.60%	Sete Lagoas	2004	ap2005
157	318,000	400,000	79.50%	São Luíz de Cáceres	2004	ap2005
158	320,000	397,500	80.50%	Xingu (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
159	317,000	396,259	80.00%	Cruz Alta	2004	ap2005
160	240,000	391,109	61.36%	Itapeva	2004	ap2005
161	312,073	390,092	80.00%	Bagé	2004	ap2005
162	286,494	389,749	73.51%	Frederico Westphalen	2004	ap2005
163	263,830	386,041	68.34%	Paranaguá	2004	ap2005
164	252,221	383,841	65.71%	Araçuaí (Arassuaí)	2004	ap2005
165	285,857	381,143	75.00%	Cascavel (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
166	340,580	372,495	91.43%	Crateús	2004	ap2005
167	314,500	370,000	85.00%	Grajaú	2004	ap2005
168	337,600	365,000	92.49%	Patos	2004	ap2005
169	292,000	364,720	80.06%	Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas	2004	ap2005
170	296,014	364,536	81.20%	Umuarama	2004	ap2005
171	305,211	362,400	84.22%	Janaúba	2004	ap2005
172	291,000	359,702	80.90%	Jales	2004	ap2005
173	240,000	358,000	67.04%	Itaguaí	2004	ap2005
174	292,012	356,244	81.97%	Campo Mourão	2004	ap2005
175	294,530	351,095	83.89%	Amparo	2004	ap2005
176	279,906	350,919	79.76%	Caçador	2004	ap2005
177	280,000	350,000	80.00%	Bom Jesus da Lapa	2004	ap2005
178	298,000	350,000	85.14%	Uruaçu (Uruassu)	2004	ap2005
179	302,862	347,140	87.24%	Picos	2004	ap2005
180	305,496	344,415	88.70%	Toledo	2004	ap2005
181	318,059	342,207	92.94%	Afogados da Ingazeira	2004	ap2005
182	279,000	339,000	82.30%	Macapá	2004	ap2005
183	290,000	338,301	85.72%	Lages	2004	ap2005
184	247,550	330,358	74.93%	Valença	2004	ap2005
185	240,000	330,000	72.73%	Jardim	2004	ap2005
186	281,261	324,591	86.65%	Tubarão	2004	ap2005
187	200,000	324,397	61.65%	Roraima	2004	ap2005
188	297,365	321,220	92.57%	Campo Maior	2004	ap2005
189	288,394	320,347	90.03%	Ituiutaba	2004	ap2005
190	276,000	319,861	86.29%	Porto Nacional	2004	ap2005
191	270,000	316,541	85.30%	Barreiras	2004	ap2005
192	300,045	307,792	97.48%	Propriá	2004	ap2005
193	240,687	303,998	79.17%	Barretos	2003	ap2004
194	285,000	300,000	95.00%	Oliveira	2004	ap2005
195	234,000	300,000	78.00%	Paracatu	2004	ap2005
196	242,050	295,522	81.91%	Joaçaba	2004	ap2005
197	147,305	294,610	50.00%	Ourinhos	2004	ap2005
198	207,283	294,008	70.50%	São Luís de Montes Belos	2004	ap2005
199	227,000	290,792	78.06%	Formosa	2003	ap2004
200	137,091	290,000	47.27%	Registro	2004	ap2005
201	245,000	289,194	84.72%	Assis	2004	ap2005
202	260,000	287,150	90.55%	Januária	2004	ap2005
203	279,396	285,274	97.94%	Oeiras-Floriano	2004	ap2005
204	260,000	284,932	91.25%	Zé-Doca	2004	ap2005
205	221,038	283,383	78.00%	Itumbiara	2004	ap2005
206	243,000	283,000	85.87%	União da Vitória	2004	ap2005
207	254,419	282,724	89.99%	Quixadá	2004	ap2005
208	183,350	280,457	65.38%	Lins	2004	ap2005
209	225,408	277,541	81.22%	Rio do Sul	2004	ap2005
210	237,000	275,000	86.18%	Rondonópolis	2004	ap2005
211	216,252	270,315	80.00%	Ipameri	2004	ap2005
212	200,000	270,000	74.07%	Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia	2004	ap2005
213	245,000	269,931	90.76%	Guanhães	2004	ap2005
214	226,547	269,186	84.16%	Osório	2004	ap2005
215	233,878	269,071	86.92%	Livramento de Nossa Senhora	2004	ap2005
216	206,089	266,455	77.34%	Catanduva	2004	ap2005
217	172,778	265,811	65.00%	Rio Grande	2004	ap2005
218	198,936	263,590	75.47%	Lorena	2004	ap2005
219	250,000	263,336	94.94%	Caicó	2004	ap2005
220	230,000	260,000	88.46%	Marajó (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
221	248,690	253,060	98.27%	Floresta	2002	ap2004
222	230,000	250,000	92.00%	Barra (do Rio Grande)	2004	ap2005
223	177,188	248,587	71.28%	Diamantino	2004	ap2005
224	155,400	248,362	62.57%	Caraguatatuba	2004	ap2005
225	201,510	237,071	85.00%	Paranavaí	2004	ap2005
226	171,000	235,578	72.59%	Balsas	2004	ap2005
227	170,625	227,500	75.00%	Cruzeiro do Sul	2004	ap2005
228	206,600	222,191	92.98%	Goiás	2004	ap2005
229	161,640	215,521	75.00%	Tefé (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
230	161,039	214,718	75.00%	Três Lagoas	2004	ap2005
231	168,381	213,005	79.05%	Erexim	2004	ap2005
232	143,327	204,753	70.00%	Cachoeira do Sul	2004	ap2005
233	135,666	203,500	66.67%	Guajará-Mirim	2004	ap2005
234	194,200	201,700	96.28%	Itaituba (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
235	167,379	201,063	83.25%	Óbidos (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
236	181,300	199,500	90.88%	Vacaria	2004	ap2005
237	156,988	198,055	79.26%	Cornélio Procópio	2005	ap2005
238	170,000	195,600	86.91%	Parintins	2004	ap2005
239	166,076	195,306	85.03%	Coari (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
240	153,600	192,000	80.00%	Cristalândia (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
241	155,000	190,000	81.58%	Borba (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
242	136,701	184,732	74.00%	Miracema do Tocantins	2004	ap2005
243	140,385	183,385	76.55%	Palmas (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
244	83,013	180,000	46.12%	Aparecida (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
245	140,000	178,778	78.31%	Almenara	2004	ap2005
246	156,219	176,576	88.47%	São Raimundo Nonato	2004	ap2005
247	98,000	169,000	57.99%	Alto Solimões	2004	ap2005
248	143,832	161,532	89.04%	Bom Jesus do Gurguéia	2004	ap2005
249	126,726	155,254	81.62%	Itacoatiara (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
250	121,000	150,000	80.67%	Carolina	2004	ap2005
251	100,000	150,000	66.67%	Guiratinga	2004	ap2005
252	129,000	150,000	86.00%	São Félix (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
253	124,380	138,200	90.00%	Juína	2004	ap2005
254	95,000	130,000	73.08%	Coxim	2004	ap2005
255	98,222	122,778	80.00%	Barra do Garças	2004	ap2005
256	108,800	120,000	90.67%	Ponta de Pedras	2004	ap2005
257	84,835	105,550	80.37%	Rubiataba-Mozarlândia	2004	ap2005
258	85,000	102,680	82.78%	Corumbá	2004	ap2005
259	65,000	95,000	68.42%	Humaitá	2004	ap2005
260	61,500	78,832	78.01%	Lábrea (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
261	53,200	62,180	85.56%	Paranatinga (Territorial Prelature)	2002	ap2003
262	56,000	62,000	90.32%	São Gabriel da Cachoeira	2004	ap2005