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Cathedral · Porto Alegre, Brazil

Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Mother of God, Porto Alegre

Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Mother of God, Porto Alegre is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, dedicated to Theotokos. A cathedral is the church of the bishop, where his chair, the cathedra, stands: the mother church of the diocese, where he ordains priests and blesses the holy oils each Holy Week. It is one of 270 cathedrals in Brazil on CathoNav.

Where
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Cathedral of
Archdiocese of Porto Alegre · its bishop today
Dedicated to
Theotokos
Founded
1921

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Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady Mother of God, Porto Alegre
Photo: Zimbres 23:17, 21 April 2007 (UTC) · CC BY-SA 2.5

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