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#	Catholics	Population	Percent Catholic	Diocese	Year	Source
1	303,729	427,066	71.12%	Abaetetuba	2004	ap2005
2	318,059	342,207	92.94%	Afogados da Ingazeira	2004	ap2005
3	524,000	680,000	77.06%	Alagoinhas	2004	ap2005
4	140,000	178,778	78.31%	Almenara	2004	ap2005
5	98,000	169,000	57.99%	Alto Solimões	2004	ap2005
6	537,000	552,042	97.28%	Amargosa	2004	ap2005
7	294,530	351,095	83.89%	Amparo	2004	ap2005
8	325,648	465,212	70.00%	Anápolis	2004	ap2005
9	83,013	180,000	46.12%	Aparecida (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
10	398,800	465,800	85.62%	Apucarana	2004	ap2005
11	930,000	1,080,395	86.08%	Aracajú (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
12	415,131	461,475	89.96%	Araçatuba	2004	ap2005
13	252,221	383,841	65.71%	Araçuaí (Arassuaí)	2004	ap2005
14	245,000	289,194	84.72%	Assis	2004	ap2005
15	451,000	490,261	91.99%	Bacabal	2004	ap2005
16	312,073	390,092	80.00%	Bagé	2004	ap2005
17	171,000	235,578	72.59%	Balsas	2004	ap2005
18	230,000	250,000	92.00%	Barra (do Rio Grande)	2004	ap2005
19	98,222	122,778	80.00%	Barra do Garças	2004	ap2005
20	556,525	742,034	75.00%	Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda	2004	ap2005
21	270,000	316,541	85.30%	Barreiras	2004	ap2005
22	240,687	303,998	79.17%	Barretos	2003	ap2004
23	422,739	469,710	90.00%	Bauru	2004	ap2005
24	1,704,000	2,068,836	82.37%	Belém do Pará (Archdiocese)	2005	bul:29Dec2004
25	3,162,539	4,216,719	75.00%	Belo Horizonte (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
26	390,264	540,242	72.24%	Blumenau	2004	ap2005
27	280,000	350,000	80.00%	Bom Jesus da Lapa	2004	ap2005
28	143,832	161,532	89.04%	Bom Jesus do Gurguéia	2004	ap2005
29	561,941	625,148	89.89%	Bonfim	2004	ap2005
30	155,000	190,000	81.58%	Borba (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
31	369,000	435,308	84.77%	Botucatu (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
32	550,627	597,249	92.19%	Bragança do Pará	2005	ap2005
33	750,000	1,000,000	75.00%	Bragança Paulista	2004	ap2005
34	1,417,181	2,064,553	68.64%	Brasília (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
35				Brazil, Military (Military Ordinariate)	2004	ap2005
36	10,000			Brazil, Faithful of the Oriental Rites (Ordinariate)	1997	ap2002
37	410,000	448,000	91.52%	Brejo	2004	ap2005
38	279,906	350,919	79.76%	Caçador	2004	ap2005
39	143,327	204,753	70.00%	Cachoeira do Sul	2004	ap2005
40	367,165	611,943	60.00%	Cachoeiro do Itapemirim	2004	ap2005
41	618,351	678,221	91.17%	Caetité	2004	ap2005
42	250,000	263,336	94.94%	Caicó	2004	ap2005
43	507,278	533,909	95.01%	Cajazeiras	2004	ap2005
44	287,700	411,657	69.89%	Cametá (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
45	647,433	662,483	97.73%	Campanha	2004	ap2005
46	720,000	830,118	86.73%	Campina Grande	2003	ap2004
47	1,235,281	1,698,360	72.73%	Campinas (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
48	1,634,696	2,169,688	75.34%	Campo Grande (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
49	2,600,000	2,850,000	91.23%	Campo Limpo	2004	ap2005
50	297,365	321,220	92.57%	Campo Maior	2004	ap2005
51	292,012	356,244	81.97%	Campo Mourão	2004	ap2005
52	854,000	986,000	86.61%	Campos	2004	ap2005
53	155,400	248,362	62.57%	Caraguatatuba	2004	ap2005
54	539,630	637,280	84.68%	Caratinga	2004	ap2005
55	121,000	150,000	80.67%	Carolina	2004	ap2005
56	610,281	724,794	84.20%	Caruaru	2004	ap2005
57	285,857	381,143	75.00%	Cascavel (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
58	405,000	688,306	58.84%	Castanhal	2004	ap2005
59	206,089	266,455	77.34%	Catanduva	2004	ap2005
60	690,000	720,000	95.83%	Caxias do Maranhão	2004	ap2005
61	668,232	742,481	90.00%	Caxias do Sul	2004	ap2005
62	500,000	698,423	71.59%	Chapecó	2004	ap2005
63	166,076	195,306	85.03%	Coari (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
64	387,151	483,938	80.00%	Colatina	2004	ap2005
65	156,988	198,055	79.26%	Cornélio Procópio	2005	ap2005
66	383,589	479,487	80.00%	Coroatá	2004	ap2005
67	85,000	102,680	82.78%	Corumbá	2004	ap2005
68	95,000	130,000	73.08%	Coxim	2004	ap2005
69	340,580	372,495	91.43%	Crateús	2004	ap2005
70	750,000	920,000	81.52%	Crato	2004	ap2005
71	402,231	484,916	82.95%	Criciúma	2004	ap2005
72	153,600	192,000	80.00%	Cristalândia (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
73	317,000	396,259	80.00%	Cruz Alta	2004	ap2005
74	170,625	227,500	75.00%	Cruzeiro do Sul	2004	ap2005
75	700,000	809,631	86.46%	Cuiabá (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
76	2,000,000	2,771,731	72.16%	Curitiba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
77	486,864	586,584	83.00%	Diamantina (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
78	177,188	248,587	71.28%	Diamantino	2004	ap2005
79	586,474	681,740	86.03%	Divinópolis	2004	ap2005
80	560,000	700,000	80.00%	Dourados	2004	ap2005
81	976,000	1,235,626	78.99%	Duque de Caxias	2004	ap2005
82	168,381	213,005	79.05%	Erexim	2004	ap2005
83	421,152	431,127	97.69%	Estância	2004	ap2005
84	534,485	614,485	86.98%	Eunápolis	2004	ap2005
85	1,045,482	1,194,882	87.50%	Feira de Santana (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
86	248,690	253,060	98.27%	Floresta	2002	ap2004
87	966,438	1,243,807	77.70%	Florianópolis (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
88	227,000	290,792	78.06%	Formosa	2003	ap2004
89	2,406,000	3,400,657	70.75%	Fortaleza (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
90	363,000	405,000	89.63%	Foz do Iguaçu	2004	ap2005
91	600,000	760,000	78.95%	Franca	2004	ap2005
92	286,494	389,749	73.51%	Frederico Westphalen	2004	ap2005
93	543,367	573,331	94.77%	Garanhuns	2003	ap2004
94	1,217,300	1,850,000	65.80%	Goiânia (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
95	206,600	222,191	92.98%	Goiás	2004	ap2005
96	350,000	500,000	70.00%	Governador Valadares	2004	ap2005
97	314,500	370,000	85.00%	Grajaú	2004	ap2005
98	135,666	203,500	66.67%	Guajará-Mirim	2004	ap2005
99	245,000	269,931	90.76%	Guanhães	2004	ap2005
100	343,930	404,623	85.00%	Guarabira	2004	ap2005
101	450,578	563,223	80.00%	Guarapuava	2004	ap2005
102	790,000	1,220,000	64.75%	Guarulhos	2004	ap2005
103	572,711	818,159	70.00%	Guaxupé	2004	ap2005
104	100,000	150,000	66.67%	Guiratinga	2004	ap2005
105	65,000	95,000	68.42%	Humaitá	2004	ap2005
106	486,086	512,313	94.88%	Iguatú	2004	ap2005
107	493,179	690,436	71.43%	Ilhéus	2004	ap2005
108	376,000	470,000	80.00%	Imperatriz	2004	ap2005
109	216,252	270,315	80.00%	Ipameri	2004	ap2005
110	295,000	470,000	62.77%	Irecê	2004	ap2005
111	496,798	728,917	68.16%	Itabira-Fabriciano	2004	ap2005
112	600,000	650,000	92.31%	Itabuna	2004	ap2005
113	126,726	155,254	81.62%	Itacoatiara (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
114	240,000	358,000	67.04%	Itaguaí	2004	ap2005
115	194,200	201,700	96.28%	Itaituba (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
116	546,000	635,000	85.98%	Itapetininga	2004	ap2005
117	240,000	391,109	61.36%	Itapeva	2004	ap2005
118	402,933	446,606	90.22%	Itapipoca	2004	ap2005
119	288,394	320,347	90.03%	Ituiutaba	2004	ap2005
120	221,038	283,383	78.00%	Itumbiara	2004	ap2005
121	320,000	435,854	73.42%	Jaboticabal	2004	ap2005
122	371,504	426,577	87.09%	Jacarezinho	2004	ap2005
123	291,000	359,702	80.90%	Jales	2004	ap2005
124	305,211	362,400	84.22%	Janaúba	2004	ap2005
125	260,000	287,150	90.55%	Januária	2004	ap2005
126	240,000	330,000	72.73%	Jardim	2004	ap2005
127	430,000	530,000	81.13%	Jataí	2004	ap2005
128	500,000	580,000	86.21%	Jequié	2004	ap2005
129	480,000	709,938	67.61%	Ji-Paraná	2004	ap2005
130	242,050	295,522	81.91%	Joaçaba	2004	ap2005
131	608,430	936,046	65.00%	Joinville	2004	ap2005
132	364,765	423,708	86.09%	Juazeiro	2004	ap2005
133	124,380	138,200	90.00%	Juína	2004	ap2005
134	533,000	667,000	79.91%	Juiz de Fora (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
135	846,119	995,434	85.00%	Jundiaí	2004	ap2005
136	61,500	78,832	78.01%	Lábrea (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
137	290,000	338,301	85.72%	Lages	2004	ap2005
138	396,865	529,154	75.00%	Leopoldina	2004	ap2005
139	632,706	949,059	66.67%	Limeira	2004	ap2005
140	435,699	484,111	90.00%	Limoeiro do Norte	2004	ap2005
141	183,350	280,457	65.38%	Lins	2004	ap2005
142	233,878	269,071	86.92%	Livramento de Nossa Senhora	2004	ap2005
143	658,800	900,000	73.20%	Londrina (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
144	198,936	263,590	75.47%	Lorena	2004	ap2005
145	352,800	441,000	80.00%	Luz	2004	ap2005
146	500,000	700,000	71.43%	Luziânia	2004	ap2005
147	279,000	339,000	82.30%	Macapá	2004	ap2005
148	944,100	1,452,476	65.00%	Maceió (Archdiocese)	2003	ap2004
149	1,200,000	1,405,835	85.36%	Manaus (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
150	370,000	533,000	69.42%	Marabá	2004	ap2005
151	230,000	260,000	88.46%	Marajó (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
152	924,266	1,099,136	84.09%	Mariana (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
153	522,000	652,850	79.96%	Marília	2004	ap2005
154	428,157	611,654	70.00%	Maringá (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
155	136,701	184,732	74.00%	Miracema do Tocantins	2004	ap2005
156	596,565	1,233,890	48.35%	Mogi das Cruzes	2004	ap2005
157	549,509	732,679	75.00%	Montes Claros (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
158	793,000	825,000	96.12%	Mossoró	2004	ap2005
159	1,627,542	1,923,667	84.61%	Natal (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
160	768,261	904,261	84.96%	Nazaré	2004	ap2005
161	1,277,516	2,094,288	61.00%	Niterói (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
162	468,000			Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo (Maronite) (Eparchy)	2004	ap2005
163	418,000			Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo (Melkite) (Eparchy)	2004	ap2005
164	503,000	620,000	81.13%	Nova Friburgo	2004	ap2005
165	1,023,000	1,755,770	58.27%	Nova Iguaçu	2004	ap2005
166	721,338	961,783	75.00%	Novo Hamburgo	2004	ap2005
167	167,379	201,063	83.25%	Óbidos (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
168	279,396	285,274	97.94%	Oeiras-Floriano	2004	ap2005
169	3,371,975	3,570,703	94.43%	Olinda e Recife (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
170	285,000	300,000	95.00%	Oliveira	2004	ap2005
171	1,786,420	2,160,175	82.70%	Osasco	2004	ap2005
172	226,547	269,186	84.16%	Osório	2004	ap2005
173	147,305	294,610	50.00%	Ourinhos	2004	ap2005
174	270,913	423,589	63.96%	Palmares	2004	ap2005
175	140,385	183,385	76.55%	Palmas (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
176	490,787	557,707	88.00%	Palmas-Francisco Beltrão	2004	ap2005
177	470,000	559,673	83.98%	Palmeira dos Índios	2004	ap2005
178	234,000	300,000	78.00%	Paracatu	2004	ap2005
179	1,030,416	1,240,022	83.10%	Paraíba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
180	263,830	386,041	68.34%	Paranaguá	2004	ap2005
181	53,200	62,180	85.56%	Paranatinga (Territorial Prelature)	2002	ap2003
182	201,510	237,071	85.00%	Paranavaí	2004	ap2005
183	170,000	195,600	86.91%	Parintins	2004	ap2005
184	495,000	550,000	90.00%	Parnaíba	2004	ap2005
185	366,397	488,530	75.00%	Passo Fundo	2004	ap2005
186	337,600	365,000	92.49%	Patos	2004	ap2005
187	393,735	529,162	74.41%	Patos de Minas	2004	ap2005
188	488,698	601,215	81.29%	Paulo Afonso	2004	ap2005
189	315,000	543,732	57.93%	Pelotas	2004	ap2005
190	774,100	832,365	93.00%	Penedo	2004	ap2005
191	370,200	410,200	90.25%	Pesqueira	2004	ap2005
192	585,000	650,000	90.00%	Petrolina	2004	ap2005
193	595,000	760,000	78.29%	Petrópolis	2004	ap2005
194	302,862	347,140	87.24%	Picos	2004	ap2005
195	348,192	435,240	80.00%	Pinheiro	2004	ap2005
196	763,246	988,326	77.23%	Piracicaba	2004	ap2005
197	108,800	120,000	90.67%	Ponta de Pedras	2004	ap2005
198	546,838	643,339	85.00%	Ponta Grossa	2004	ap2005
199	2,475,398	3,306,657	74.86%	Porto Alegre (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
200	276,000	319,861	86.29%	Porto Nacional	2004	ap2005
201	598,000	664,958	89.93%	Porto Velho (Archdiocese)	2000	ap2004
202	660,580	730,918	90.38%	Pouso Alegre (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
203	470,000	511,445	91.90%	Presidente Prudente	2004	ap2005
204	300,045	307,792	97.48%	Propriá	2004	ap2005
205	254,419	282,724	89.99%	Quixadá	2004	ap2005
206	137,091	290,000	47.27%	Registro	2004	ap2005
207	742,100	927,625	80.00%	Ribeirão Preto (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
208	356,658	448,062	79.60%	Rio Branco	2004	ap2005
209	225,408	277,541	81.22%	Rio do Sul	2004	ap2005
210	172,778	265,811	65.00%	Rio Grande	2004	ap2005
211	237,000	275,000	86.18%	Rondonópolis	2004	ap2005
212	200,000	324,397	61.65%	Roraima	2004	ap2005
213	84,835	105,550	80.37%	Rubiataba-Mozarlândia	2004	ap2005
214	358,000	421,840	84.87%	Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa)	2004	ap2005
215	447,502	537,002	83.33%	Santa Cruz do Sul	2004	ap2005
216	382,247	488,258	78.29%	Santa Maria	2004	ap2005
217	203,468	415,242	49.00%	Santarém	2004	ap2005
218	200,000	270,000	74.07%	Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia	2004	ap2005
219	1,900,000	2,800,000	67.86%	Santo Amaro	2004	ap2005
220	2,102,100	2,354,722	89.27%	Santo André	2004	ap2005
221	389,000	508,000	76.57%	Santo Ângelo	2004	ap2005
222	1,310,551	1,530,874	85.61%	Santos	2004	ap2005
223	723,371	951,086	76.06%	São Carlos	2004	ap2005
224	129,000	150,000	86.00%	São Félix (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
225	56,000	62,000	90.32%	São Gabriel da Cachoeira	2004	ap2005
226	161,500			São João Batista em Curitiba (Ukrainian) (Eparchy)	2004	ap2005
227	465,545	581,932	80.00%	São João da Boa Vista	2004	ap2005
228	468,000	520,000	90.00%	São João del Rei	2004	ap2005
229	28,325			São João Maria Vianney (Apostolic Administration)	2004	ap2005
230	637,844	850,458	75.00%	São José do Rio Preto	2004	ap2005
231	699,780	900,000	77.75%	São José dos Campos	2004	ap2005
232	207,283	294,008	70.50%	São Luís de Montes Belos	2004	ap2005
233	887,000	1,195,000	74.23%	São Luís do Maranhão (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
234	318,000	400,000	79.50%	São Luíz de Cáceres	2004	ap2005
235	304,426	428,339	71.07%	São Mateus	2004	ap2005
236	2,198,284	2,648,534	83.00%	São Miguel Paulista	2004	ap2005
237	5,935,807	7,075,547	83.89%	São Paulo (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
238	156,219	176,576	88.47%	São Raimundo Nonato	2004	ap2005
239	2,495,439	3,544,658	70.40%	São Salvador da Bahia (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
240	3,556,095	5,857,895	60.71%	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
241	467,742	505,787	92.48%	Serrinha	2005	bul21Sep05
242	316,570	402,770	78.60%	Sete Lagoas	2004	ap2005
243	473,000	530,000	89.25%	Sinop	2004	ap2005
244	731,554	863,713	84.70%	Sobral	2004	ap2005
245	654,789	935,414	70.00%	Sorocaba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
246	494,000	595,219	82.99%	Taubaté	2004	ap2005
247	161,640	215,521	75.00%	Tefé (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
248	292,000	364,720	80.06%	Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas	2004	ap2005
249	362,135	492,031	73.60%	Teófilo Otoni	2004	ap2005
250	958,197	1,052,564	91.03%	Teresina (Archdiocese)	2003	ap2004
251	378,485	411,397	92.00%	Tianguá	2004	ap2005
252	315,000	404,600	77.85%	Tocantinópolis	2004	ap2005
253	305,496	344,415	88.70%	Toledo	2004	ap2005
254	161,039	214,718	75.00%	Três Lagoas	2004	ap2005
255	281,261	324,591	86.65%	Tubarão	2004	ap2005
256	444,081	693,185	64.06%	Uberaba (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
257	598,000	810,000	73.83%	Uberlândia	2004	ap2005
258	296,014	364,536	81.20%	Umuarama	2004	ap2005
259	243,000	283,000	85.87%	União da Vitória	2004	ap2005
260	298,000	350,000	85.14%	Uruaçu (Uruassu)	2004	ap2005
261	323,062	434,887	74.29%	Uruguaiana	2004	ap2005
262	181,300	199,500	90.88%	Vacaria	2004	ap2005
263	247,550	330,358	74.93%	Valença	2004	ap2005
264	460,000	550,000	83.64%	Viana	2004	ap2005
265	1,868,722	2,983,150	62.64%	Vitória (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
266	542,249	724,619	74.83%	Vitória da Conquista (Archdiocese)	2004	ap2005
267	320,000	397,500	80.50%	Xingu (Territorial Prelature)	2004	ap2005
268	260,000	284,932	91.25%	Zé-Doca	2004	ap2005