Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva explained

Type:bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
bishop of Montenegro
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Province:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Alegre
Diocese:Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro
Appointed:22 March 2017
Predecessor:Paulo Antônio de Conto
Successor:Incumbent
Ordination:8 December 1994
Ordained By:Jayme Henrique Chemello
Consecration:4 June 2017
Consecrated By:Jacinto Bergmann
Birth Name:Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
Birth Date:1969 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Piratini, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Religion:Roman Catholic
Motto:Servite Domino in Laetitia ('Serve ye the Lord with gladness')
Coat Of Arms:Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva.svg
Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:Your Excellency
Relstyle:bishop
Deathstyle:not applicable

Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva (born 24 January 1969) is the bishop of Montenegro,[1] 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 Coadjutor Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Montenegro by Pope Francis, and received episcopal consecration on 9 June by the most reverend Jacinto Bergmann.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgonsil.html_date=15.05.2017&lang=en Father Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva
  2. http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2017/03/22/170322a.html_date=22.03.2017&lang=en Resignations and Appointments, 22.03.2017, Msgr. Carlos Rômulo Gonçalves e Silva