The brothers of the S\u00e3o Dami\u00e3o de Molokai community, in Catuji-MG, participated last Saturday morning in the installation of Bishop Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias in the diocese of Ara\u00e7ua\u00ed, in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais. Bishop Esmeraldo is the tenth bishop of this diocese and the successor to Bishop Marcel Romano, who served from 2012 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Father Jo\u00e3o Lucas Alves, ss.cc; Father \u00c9lcio Rubens Felix, ss.cc, and Brother Francisco Gleison Oliveira, ss.cc, were present at the Eucharistic Celebration where the new bishop was installed. They represented the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts and the parish of Catuji, which belongs to the diocese of Ara\u00e7ua\u00ed, which has a total of 27 parishes.<\/p>\n
Dom Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias<\/strong><\/p>\n Dom Esmeraldo was born on July 4, 1949, in Santo Ant\u00f4nio de Jesus, Bahia. He studied Philosophy at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Theology at the Institute of Theology of the Catholic University of Salvador. He is a member of the Prado Institute.<\/p>\n He was ordained a priest on January 9, 1977. He served as parish vicar in several parishes, coordinator of Rural Pastoral Care, spiritual director of the Major Seminary of Amargosa-BA, national coordinator of the priests of Prado, and diocesan administrator of Amargosa.<\/p>\n On March 22, 2000, he was appointed bishop of Paulo Afonso-BA and ordained bishop on June 11 of the same year. On February 28, 2007, he was appointed to the Diocese of Santar\u00e9m-PA and on November 30, 2011, he was appointed archbishop of Porto Velho. On March 18, 2015, he was transferred to the office of auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds do Maranh\u00e3o.<\/p>\n At the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), he was a member of the Permanent Council and president of the Episcopal Pastoral Commission for Ordained Ministries and Consecrated Life (2007-2011).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *with information from Vatican News<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Os irm\u00e3os da comunidade S\u00e3o Dami\u00e3o de Molokai, em Catuji-MG participaram na manh\u00e3 do \u00faltimo s\u00e1bado, da posse de D. Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, na diocese de Ara\u00e7ua\u00ed, no Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais. Dom Esmeraldo, \u00e9 o d\u00e9cimo bispo desta Diocese e o sucessor de Dom Marcel Romano que atuou de 2012 a 2020. Padre Jo\u00e3o Lucas Alves, ss.cc; Padre \u00c9lcio\u00a0Rubens Felix, ss.cc al\u00e9m do Irm\u00e3o Francisco Gleison Oliveira. ss.cc, estiveram presentes na Celebra\u00e7\u00e3o Eucar\u00edstica onde o novo bispo foi empossado. Ele representaram a Congrega\u00e7\u00e3o dos Sagrados Cora\u00e7\u00f5es e a par\u00f3quia de Catuji, que pertence \u00e0 diocese de Ara\u00e7ua\u00ed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n