Deacon Jorge Oliveira, ss.cc, will be ordained a priest in Rio de Janeiro.

Deacon Jorge Oliveira, ss.cc, will be ordained a priest in Rio de Janeiro.

This Saturday, October 2nd, Deacon Jorge Felipe de Oliveira Campos, ss.cc., will receive the sacrament of Holy Orders. The ceremony will be presided over by Cardinal Dom Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist, Metropolitan Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro. Deacon Jorge will be ordained a priest at 8:30 am at the Parish of Our Lady of the Conception, in the Santa Cruz neighborhood, in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

The Holy Mass can be followed on the parish's social media channels. @pnscorgbr on Facebook, or through the channel Immaculate WebTV. In keeping with the brothers of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts, the celebration will also be broadcast simultaneously by Padre Eustáquio Channel.

Jorge Felipe de Oliveira Campos was born in the Santa Cruz neighborhood, in the western zone of Rio de Janeiro. Son of Nelson Portes Campos and Mônica Serafim de Oliveira, he joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts in July 2009. He completed his Novitiate in 2012 in Chile and professed his first vows on January 6, 2013, at the Nossa Senhora do Desterro Parish in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro.

In 2015 he lived in the religious community of Catuji-MG, where he completed his pastoral year. In 2016 he was sent to the Sanctuary of Health and Peace in Belo Horizonte, and on August 15, 2017, he professed his perpetual vows.

In December 2019 he completed his Theology studies and, the following year, was sent to Paraguay, to the community of Fernando de la Mora. On November 12, 2020, he was ordained a deacon, returning to Brazil five months later to serve at the Nossa Senhora do Desterro Parish in Campo Grande, Rio de Janeiro, where he remains to this day.