Mário Clemente Neto (7 August 1940 – 8 August 2024) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, prelate, and member of the

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. Neto served as the Prelate of the

Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tefé The Territorial Prelature of Tefé ( la, Praelatura Territorialis Tefensis) is a Roman Catholic territorial prelature located in the city of Tefé in the ecclesiastical province of Manaus in Brazil. History * On 23 May 1910, the Apostolic P ...

, located in the Amazonian city of

Tefé Tefé, known in early accounts as Teffé, is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Location Tefé is located about 525 km by air or 595 km by river to the west of Manaus on the south bank of the Rio Solimões (th ...

, from 15 December 1982 until his retirement on 19 October 2000. Neto was born on 7 August 1940 in the rural community of Capão Escuro, located within Itaúna municipality, Minas Gerais. He entered the

on 2 February 1963 and was ordained as a Catholic priest on 14 August 1966 by Bishop Cristiano Portela de Araújo Pena of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Divinópolis The Roman Catholic Diocese of Divinópolis ( la, Dioecesis Divinopolitanus) is a diocese located in the city of Divinópolis in the Ecclesiastical province of Belo Horizonte in Brazil. History * July 11, 1958: Established as Diocese of Divinópo ...

. He then served as a priest and teacher in Minas Gerais and São Paulo. Neto began working at a

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parish in Tefé during the 1970s. The then-Prelate of Tefé Joaquim de Lange then appointed him to a position with the territorial prelature. On 19 October 1980, Neto was appointed prelate

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of the

by Pope John Paul II. He was ordained as Prelate of Tefé in 1982 by his predecessor, Prelate Joaquim de Lange, and served until his retirement on 19 October 2000. During this time, he also held the position of vice president of the northern region of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (CNBB). Neto died at a nursing home in

Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais Lagoa Santa (''Holy Lagoon'') is a municipality and region in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located 37 km north-northeast from Belo Horizonte and belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion o ...

, on 8 August 2024, at the age of 84. His funeral was held at the Divino Espírito Santo Parish in Contagem with burial at the Central Cemetery of Itaúna.

References

External links

Bishop Mário Clemente Neto at Catholic Hierarchy
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