Inside the Cathedral of São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro, Walking Tour


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Inside the Cathedral of São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro, Walking Tour

"The history of the Cathedral, from the foundation stone, to the present day

The Cathedral of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, also known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro, is a Catholic cathedral located in the center of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It was inaugurated in 1979, replacing, as the city's cathedral, the Church of Nossa Senhora do Carmo.

Created in 1676 by the bull of Pope Innocent XI, the Diocese, and later the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, never had its own Cathedral, it always had to use borrowed churches. In the first 58 years of its history, it was installed in the small church that governor Salvador de Sá had made of adobes and tiles, with three naves, on Morro do Castelo, and which was demolished in 1922, when the dismantling of the hill was completed. .

In 1734, the Cathedral was transferred from Morro do Castelo to the church of Santa Cruz dos Militares, where it remained for only three years. It then moved to the church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário and São Benedito dos Homens Pretos, and stayed there until the arrival of the Royal Family, in 1808, when the Prince Regent of Portugal, Dom João VI, made the church Nossa Senhora do Carmo , in Praça XV, his Royal Chapel, soon elevated, by him too, to the category of Cathedral.

On the 20th day of November 1976, Cardinal Archbishop Dom Eugenio de Araujo Sales appointed the tireless entrepreneur of the construction of the new Cathedral Monsignor Ivo Antonio Calliari as Curate of the Cathedral of São Sebastião and, on December 28, 1983, he appointed him Parish Priest of the Parish of the Cathedral of São Sebastião.

On the 2nd of July 1980, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, on his first visit to Brazil, presided over a solemn ceremony with the Bishops of CELAM, which celebrated its silver jubilee. And, on October 4, 1997, His Holiness presided over a solemn Mass, concelebrated by more than 500 bishops from all over the world and more than 1,000 priests, an occasion in which 5,000 people participated and thousands watched, from all parts of the world, via television, on the occasion of the "II World Meeting of the Pope with Families", definitively consolidating it as a landmark of modern and bold, imposing and functional architecture, distinguished by its noble simplicity.

In the year in which he celebrated 30 years at the head of the Archdiocese, the Most Eminent Cardinal Dom Eugenio de Araujo Sales became Archbishop Emeritus and the Ceremony of the Beginning of Mission of the new Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Dom Eusébio Oscar Scheid, gave on September 22, 2001, in this Cathedral.

In 2009, Cardinal Scheid became Archbishop Emeritus and the new Archbishop Dom Orani João Tempesta, appointed by the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, began the Mission as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, on the Sunday of the Octave of Easter and the Feast of Misericórdia, on April 19, 2009, in a solemn Eucharistic celebration, in this Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, when the episcopal coat of arms was introduced on the Chair, whose motto is: SO THAT ALL MAY BE ONE. Civil, military and religious authorities and thousands of faithful welcomed Dom Orani Tempesta and wished him a blessed shepherding." -