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Teodoro Mendes Tavares
Teodoro Mendes Tavares (born 7 January 1964) is a Cape Verdean clergyman and the first and only Cape Verdean-born bishop of any diocese in Brazil, he is currently the third Catholic bishop of Ponta de Pedras, covering the Marajó Archipelago in Pará Biography He was born in the parish of São Miguel, once in the municipality of Tarrafal, now in the municipality of São Miguel. Teodoro Tavares studied philosophy at the High Institute of Theology (Instituto Superior de Teologia) in Braga, a campus of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Portugal from 1986 to 1987. He later studied theology at the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Portugal from 1988 to 1993. In 1995, he obtained the title as master at Trinity College, Dublin, where he presented a dissertation "The Churches and the European Immigration Policy in the Light of the Schengen and Dublin Agreement". He was ordained as priest on June 11, 1993 and went on a mission to Brazil in 1994 to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Ponta De Pedras
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras ( la, Dioecesis Petrosi Culminis) is a diocese located in the city of Ponta de Pedras in the Ecclesiastical province of Belém do Pará in Brazil. History * June 25, 1963: Established as Territorial Prelature of Ponta de Pedras from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Belém do Pará * October 16, 1979: Promoted as Diocese of Ponta de Pedras Bishops Ordinaries (in reverse chronological order) * Bishops of Ponta de Pedras (Roman rite) ** Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp. (2015.09.23 - ) ** Bishop Alessio Saccardo, S.J. (2002.01.16 – 2015.09.23) ** Bishop Angelo Maria Rivato, S.J. (83) (1979.10.16 – 2002.01.16) * Prelates of Ponta de Pedras (Roman rite) ** Bishop Angelo Maria Rivato, S.J. (1965.04.29 – 1979.10.16) Coadjutor bishop *Teodoro Mendes Tavares Teodoro Mendes Tavares (born 7 January 1964) is a Cape Verdean clergyman and the first and only Cape Verdean-born bishop of any diocese in Brazil, he is currently the third Cathol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazonas State (Brazil)
Amazonas () is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and the largest in South America, being greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. Entirely in the Western Hemisphere, it is the fourth largest in the Western Hemisphere after Greenland, Nunavut and Alaska. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Verdean Roman Catholic Bishops
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a Hood (headgear), hood in the Chaperon (headgear), chaperon. They have had periodic returns to fashion - for example, in nineteenth-century Europe. Roman Catholic clergy wear a type of cape known as a ferraiolo, which is worn for formal events outside a ritualistic context. The cope is a liturgical vestment in the form of a cape. Capes are often highly decorated with elaborate embroidery. Capes remain in regular use as rainwear in various military units and police forces, in France for example. A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth-century wars. Rich noblemen and elite warriors of the Aztec Empire would wear a tilmàtli; a Mesoamerican cloak/cape used as a symbol of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
