High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Parana (erected 13 June 1859, as the Diocese of Parana) is a metropolitan diocese, responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Concordia and Gualeguaychu. It was elevated on 20 April 1934. In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop (then more precisely called metropolitan archbishop) of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital. Before the establishment of patriarchs (beginning in AD 325), metropolitan was the highest episcopal rank in the Eastern rites of the Church. They presided over synods of bishops, and were granted special privileges by canon law and sacred tradition.

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