João Alves (13 December 1925 − 28 June 2013) was a Portuguese

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bishop. Alves was born on 13 December 1925 in

Torres Novas Torres Novas () is a Portugal, Portuguese Concelho, municipality in the district of Santarém (district), Santarém, in the Médio Tejo Subregion, Médio Tejo of the Oeste e Vale do Tejo region. The population of the municipality was approximately ...

. Ordained in 1951, Alves was named bishop in 1975. In 1976, he was appointed bishop of the

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and retired in 2001. Alves died on 28 June 2013, aged 87, in

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of . The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...

.President of the Republic sent message of condolences upon the death of D. João Alves, Bishop Emeritus of Coimbra
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