The thirteenth bishop and first archbishop of São Paulo, Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva was native of Taubaté who ordained priest on October 30, 1892, served as bishop of Curitiba between 1904 and 1906, when he was named to São Paulo on December 18 that year. Along his episcopate, Dom Duarte sought to rational the government of his vast see and was engaged in the foundation of several religious houses in the archdiocese. Preparing and conducting the First Eucharistic Congress in São Paulo in 1915, the National Eucharistic Congress of 1922, the Congress of Catholic Youth in 1928 and the Marian Congress in 1929, he created the Museum of the Curia of São Paulo which would later become the Museum of Sacred Arts of São Paulo and founded the General Archives of the Curia of São Paulo, presently the Metropolitan Archive Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva. Installing perpetual adoration in the church of Santa Ifigenia under the care of Sacramentinos priests, he created fourteen hospital when the Spanish flu struck the city in 1918. Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, the cathedral of São Paulo that houses amongst others his remains, was built during his tenure.
The thirteenth bishop and first archbishop of São Paulo, Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva was native of Taubaté who ordained priest on October 30, 1892, served as bishop of Curitiba between 1904 and 1906, when he was named to São Paulo on December 18 that year. Along his episcopate, Dom Duarte sought to rational the government of his vast see and was engaged in the foundation of several religious houses in the archdiocese. Preparing and conducting the First Eucharistic Congress in São Paulo in 1915, the National Eucharistic Congress of 1922, the Congress of Catholic Youth in 1928 and the Marian Congress in 1929, he created the Museum of the Curia of São Paulo which would later become the Museum of Sacred Arts of São Paulo and founded the General Archives of the Curia of São Paulo, presently the Metropolitan Archive Dom Duarte Leopoldo e Silva. Installing perpetual adoration in the church of Santa Ifigenia under the care of Sacramentinos priests, he created fourteen hospital when the Spanish flu struck the city in 1918. Assistant at the Pontifical Throne, the cathedral of São Paulo that houses amongst others his remains, was built during his tenure.
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