Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, (24 January 1969 – ) is the bishop of Montenegro, a

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in the

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of its mother see, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (in the state capital) in

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state, southernmost Brazil.

Biography

Early life and priesthood

Gonçalves e Silva was born in 1969 in

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, in the Archdiocese of Pelotas, Brazil. He entered the diocesan seminary of

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, where he did his secondary studies. He studied philosophy in Catholic University of Pelotas, and theology in São Francisco de Paula seminary. He also earned a degree in spirituality in Rome and attended university courses in

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. On 9 December 1994 he was

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a priest. He was rector of the Diocesan Seminary and then General Vicar em Pelotas.

Bishop

On 22 March 2017, he was appointed

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro The Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro ( la, Dioecesis Nigromontana) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of its mother see, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (in the state capital) in Rio Grande do Sul state ...

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, and received episcopal consecration on 9 June by the most reverend Jacinto Bergmann.Resignations and Appointments, 22.03.2017, Msgr. Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
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References

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