Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto

Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto Archidioecesis Rivi Nigri
Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Sebastian
Location
Country	Brazil
Statistics
Area	8,897 km2 (3,435 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 927,625 742,100 (80.0%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Established	7 June 1908 (109 years ago)
Cathedral	Catedral Metropolitana São Sebastião
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Archbishop	Moacir Silva
Map
Website
www.arquidioceserp.org.br

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto (Latin: Archidioecesis Rivi Nigri) is an archdiocese located in the city of Ribeirão Preto in Brazil.

Bishop Moacir Silva, until then serving as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of São José dos Campos, was named to serve as the next Metropolitan Archbishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto by Pope Francis on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. He is the tenth ordinary and eighth Archbishop, and succeeds Archbishop Joviano de Lima Júnior, S.S.S., a Pope Benedict appointee who had died in office in June 2012. Silva was born on July 16, 1954, in São José dos Campos, Brazil, in Sao Paulo State, the see city of the Roman Catholic Diocese of São José dos Campos which he eventually headed. He completed preparatory studies at the Minor Seminary of Taubate, Brazil, and then completed his undergraduate philosophy studies at the Bom Jesus Seminary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aparecida in Aparecida, Brazil. Archbishop-elect Silva then completed his graduate studies in theology at the Theological Institute Sagrado Coração de Jesus of Taubate. He is trained in Canon Law (the laws of the Catholic Church), having obtained the Licentiate of Canon Law (J.C.L.) from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology Nossa Senhora da Assunção in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and having also graduated from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, Italy.