Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
José Geraldo da Cruz | |
Honorific-Suffix: | A.A. |
Bishop of Juazeiro | |
Diocese: | Juazeiro |
Appointed: | 4 June 2003 |
Term End: | 7 September 2016 |
Predecessor: | José Rodrigues de Souza |
Successor: | Carlos Alberto Breis Pereira |
Ordination: | 1 May 1969 |
Consecration: | 16 August 2003 |
Consecrated By: | Luciano Mendes de Almeida |
Birth Date: | 1941 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Death Place: | Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil |
Motto: | ADVENIAT REGNUM TUUM |
José Geraldo da Cruz A.A. (8 August 1941 – 4 April 2022) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate.
Da Cruz was born in Brazil and was ordained to the priesthood in 1969. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Juazeiro, Brazil, from 2003 until his retirement in 2016.[1]