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Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz (July 1, 1928 – July 6, 2014) was a
Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Kreutz was named
titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of ''Maranana'' and auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Santo Angelo,
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 ...
in 1972. In 1973, he was named diocesan bishop of the Santo Angelo Diocese and retired in 2004.Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz
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1928 births 2014 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil Brazilian people of German descent 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil Roman Catholic bishops of Santo Ângelo {{Brazil-RC-bishop-stub