Aldo di Cillo Pagotto S.S.S. (16 September 1949 – 14 April 2020) was a Brazilian

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Biography

Pagotto was born in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, 16 September 1949. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. He served as coadjutor bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sobral The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sobral ( la, Dioecesis Sobralensis) is a diocese located in the city of Sobral in the Ecclesiastical province of Fortaleza in Brazil. History * November 10, 1915: Established as Diocese of Sobral from the Diocese o ...

, Brazil, in 1996 and 1997 and as bishop of the Sobral Diocese from 1997 to 2004. He then became archbishop of the

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paraíba The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paraíba ( la, Archidioecesis Parahybensis) is a Latin Metropolitan archdiocese, named after the city of João Pessoa, which used to be named Paraíba, in southeastern Brazil. Its cathedral archiepiscopal see is ...

, Brazil, from 2004 to 2016. He died in

Fortaleza Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...

from

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