José Antônio Aparecido Tosi Marques (born 13 May 1948) is a
Brazilian prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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. He has been serving as the Archbishop of
Fortaleza since his appointing on 13 January 1999.
Biography
Born in 1948, first of six brothers, he was ordained priest in 1974. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the
archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia
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 associat ...
.
Bibliography
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Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil. Membros da CNBB. Brasília, 1997. 337p.
References
Sources
Official website of the Archdiocese of Fortaleza
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1948 births
Living people
People from Jaú
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil
Roman Catholic bishops of São Salvador da Bahia