Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
Vescovo cattolico brasiliano
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| Intro | Vescovo cattolico brasiliano | |
| Places | Brazil | |
| is | Priest | |
| Work field | Religion | |
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| Religion: | Catholic church | |
| Birth | 24 January 1969, Piratini | |
| Age | 55 years |
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Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva, (24 January 1969 – ) is the bishop of Montenegro, a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of its mother see, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Porto Alegre (in the state capital) in Rio Grande do Sul state, southernmost Brazil.
Biography
Early life and priesthood
Gonçalves e Silva was born in 1969 in Piratini, in the Archdiocese of Pelotas, Brazil. He entered the diocesan seminary of Pelotas, where he did his secondary studies. He studied philosophy in Catholic University of Pelotas, and theology in São Francisco de Paula seminary. He also earned a degree in spirituality in Rome and attended university courses in Brazil.
On 9 December 1994 he was ordained a priest. He was rector of the Diocesan Seminary and then General Vicar em Pelotas.
Bishop
On 22 March 2017, he was appointed coadjtor Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro by Pope Francis, and received episcopal consecration on 9 June by the most reverend Jacinto Bergmann.
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| Preceded by Paulo Antônio de Conto | Bishop of Montenegro 2017 – | Succeeded by |