A eclesiologia ultramontana de Dom Sebastião Dias Larangeira e suas implicações para a diocese de São Pedro Do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This research aims to study how Dom Sebastião Dias Larangeira, second bishop of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, applied in the south of the Brazilian Empire the ultramontane ecclesiology, in the context of the conflict with the regal patronage, the arrangements of the First Vatican Council (1869 – 1870), and the consequences of this process of implementation of the conciliar arrangements to the Church in Porto Alegre. For that, analyses in general the history of the Church in Brazil and the main heritage of the Portuguese ecclesiology to the Brazilian Empire: the Iberian jurisdictionalism, or regalism, which created the Regal Patronage. It studies the consequences of regalism to the Church in Brazil, to its hierarchy and to the process of evangelization. Knowing these consequences, it studies the thoughts of Dom Sebastião Larangeira from his pastoral letters, before and after the First Vatican Council, and seeks to analyze the ordinances and decrees with which the bishop tried to control the religious life in Porto Alegre. In this study, it was not impossible to notice the image of the Pope Pius IX, the main documents from where it expressed his thoughts, and the First Vatican Council itself, the motifs that were taken to his convocation and its main consequences.