| Type: | Archbishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
| Dimas Lara Barbosa | |
| Archbishop of Campo Grande | |
| Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese: | Campo Grande |
| See: | Campo Grande |
| Appointed: | 4 May 2011 |
| Term Start: | 10 July 2011 |
| Predecessor: | Vitório Pavanello |
| Ordination: | 3 December 1988 |
| Ordained By: | Eusébio Oscar Scheid |
| Consecration: | 2 August 2003 |
| Consecrated By: | Eusébio Oscar Scheid |
| Birth Name: | Dimas Lara Barbosa |
| Birth Date: | 1956 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Boa Esperança, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
| Previous Post: | Titular Bishop of Megalopolis in Proconsulari (2003-11) Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (2003-11) Secretary General of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference (2007-11) Second Vice-President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (2011-15) |
| Motto: | Servir com alegria |
Dimas Lara Barbosa (born April 1, 1956) is a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 2003 till 2011, when he became archbishop of Campo Grande.[1] [2] [3]
Born in Boa Esperança, Lara Barbosa completed a PhD in systematic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.[4]
He was ordained to the priesthood on December 3, 1988, serving in São José dos Campos.
On June 11, 2003, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and titular bishop of Megalopolis in Proconsulari. Lara Barbosa received his episcopal consecration on the following August 2 from Eusébio Oscar Scheid, archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, with the bishop of São José dos Campos, José Nelson Westrupp, and the auxiliary bishop of Brasília, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, serving as co-consecrators.
On May 4, 2011, he was appointed archbishop of Campo Grande. He was installed on the following July 10.