Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar (November 4, 1917 – December 3, 2009) was a Brazilian
bishop
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Biography
Cardoso de Avella was born in
Três Corações, Brazil, and was ordained a priest on October 6, 1946. He was appointed Coadjutor Prelate of the
Diocese of Marabá along with being appointed Titular bishop of Eucarpia on August 6, 1971, and then ordained on September 26, 1971. On March 27, 1976 he was appointed prelate of
Diocese of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia. His final appointment came on March 20, 1978, to the
Diocese of Uberlândia
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...
, where he retired from on December 23, 1992.
References
External links
Catholic HierarchyMarabá DioceseUberlândia Diocese
1917 births
2009 deaths
People from Três Corações
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil
Roman Catholic bishops of Marabá
Roman Catholic bishops of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia
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