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Brazil holds fourty-four ecclesiastical provinces, divided into 215 dioceses and 45 archdioceses, each of which has many records of genealogical and historical value for its regions. . Each dioceses or archdioceses contains many parishes. Some dioceses of the Catholic Church have gathered copies of local parish church records into the diocese archives.

Archdioceses and dioceses records usually include:
 * Chaplaincy records (registros de capelania)
 * Dispensations (dispensas)
 * Ecclesiastical court matters
 * Inquisition records (diligências de habilitação/inquisição)
 * Marriage processes (processos de casamento)
 * Marriage bonds/banns (dispensos de matrimônio e casamentos)
 * Parish censuses (censos/confessados)
 * Parish registers (registros paroquiales)
 * Pedigree records (autos de genere)
 * Priesthood ordinations (ordenações do sacerdócio)
 * Wills (testamentos)

Catholic Church records less than 100 years old are usually kept by the local parish, which may also have earlier records. Some of these records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library, and are found through the [ FamilySearch catalog.] For records not available through the Family History Library, you can write to these archives and request brief searches of their records. For additional information, see Brazil Church Records.

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