de Araújo Sales (13 Mar 1971 Appointed – 25 Jul 2001 Retired. He had been created Cardinal in 1969). Cardinal Eusébio Scheid S.C.I. (25 Jul 2001 Appointed – 27 Feb 2009 Retired. Created Cardinal in 2003). Cardinal Orani João Tempesta O. Cist. (27 Feb 2009 Appointed – Incumbent. Created Cardinal in 2014). Coadjutor bishops Vicente da Gamal Leao (1756-1773), did not succeed to see José Joaquim Justiniano Mascarenhas Castello Branco (1773) Sebastião da Silveira Cintra (1921-1930), coadjutor archbishop; future Cardinal Auxiliary bishops Current Auxiliary Bishops Antônio Augusto Dias Duarte (2005–present) Roque Costa Souza (2012–present) Joel Portella Amado (2016–present) Paulo Alves Romão (2016–present) Juarez Delorto Secco (2017–present) Paulo Celso Dias do Nascimento (2017–present) Zdzisław Stanisław Błaszczyk (2019–present) Célio da Silveira Calixto Filho (2020–present) Antônio Luiz Catelan Ferreira (2021-present) Former Auxiliary Bishops Joaquim Silvério de Souza (1909-1910), as Archbishop (personal title); appointed Archbishop (personal title) of Diamantina Sebastião da Silveira Cintra (1911-1916), appointed Archbishop of Olinda (later returned here as Coadjutor and then Archbishop); future Cardinal Rosalvo Costa Rêgo (1946-1954), elevated to Archbishop in 1952 Jorge Marcos de Oliveira (1946-1954), appointed Bishop of Santo André, Sao Paulo Hélder Pessoa Câmara (1952-1964), elevated to Archbishop in 1955; appointed Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Pernambuco José Vicente Távora (1954-1957), appointed Bishop of Aracajú Othon Motta (1955-1959), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Campanha, Minas Gerais Wilson Laus Schmidt (1957-1962), appointed Bishop of Chapecó, Santa Catarina Honorato Piazera, S.C.I. (1959-1961), appointed Bishop of Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro José Gonçalves da Costa, C.SS.R. (1962-1969), appointed Bishop of Presidente Prudente, Sao Paulo Cândido Rubens Padín, O.S.B. (1962-1966), appointed Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo Waldyr Calheiros Novaes (de Novais) (1964-1966), appointed Bishop of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro José Alberto Lopes de Castro Pinto (1964-1976), appointed Bishop of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais Alberto Trevisan, S.A.C. (1966-1973) Mário Teixeira Gurgel, S.D.S. (1967-1971), appointed Bishop of Itabira Eduardo Koaik (1973-1979), appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Piracicaba, Sao Paulo Karl Josef Romer (1975-2002), appointed Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family Carlos Alberto Etchandy Gimeno Navarro (1975-1981), appointed Bishop of Campos, Rio de Janeiro Celso José Pinto da Silva (1978-1981), appointed Bishop of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia Affonso Felippe Gregory (1979-1987), appointed Bishop of Imperatriz, Maranhão João d'Avila Moreira Lima (1982-2002) José Palmeira Lessa (1982-1987), appointed Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe José Carlos de Lima Vaz, S.J. (1986-1995), appointed Bishop of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro Narbal da Costa Stencel (1987-2002) Rafael Llano