Vatican
City, 25 September 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father:
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appointed Fr. Joao Inacio Muller, O.F.M., as bishop of Lorena (area
5,055, population 293,000, Catholics 223,000, priests 69, permanent
deacons 14, religious 150), Brazil. The bishop-elect, previously
provincial minister of the Friars Minor of the province “Sao
Francisco de Assis”, was born in Santa Clara do Sul, Brazil in 1960
and was ordained a priest in 1988 He holds a licentiate in spiritual
theology from the "Antonianum" Pontifical Athenaeum in
Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral and administrative
roles, including: guardian of the “Sao Boaventura” convent, vicar
of the parish “Sao Joao Batista” in Daltro Filho in the diocese
of Caxias do Sul, master of novices, secretary for the Formation and
Studies for the province and provincial definitor, vicar of the
fraternity, master of students of philosophy, and agent for pastoral
care in the network of communities in the “Santa Clara” parish at
Lomba do Pinheiro.
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appointed Bishop Marco Eugenio Galrao Leite de Almeida as auxiliary
of Sao Salvador da Bahia (area 3,859, population 3,862,000, Catholics
2,730,000, priests 289, permanent deacons 73, religious 586), Brazil.
Bishop Galrao Leite de Almeida, previously bishop of Estancia,
Brazil, was born in Aracaju, Brazil in 1959, was ordained to the
priesthood in 1989, and received episcopal ordination in 2003.
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