Acácio Rodrigues Alves

Acácio Rodrigues Alves ( born April 9, 1925 in Garanhuns, Pernambuco; † August 24, 2010 in Recife, Pernambuco) was a Brazilian theologian and Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmares.

Life

Acácio Rodrigues Alves attended from 1936 to 1941, the diocesan school in Garanhuns and entered on April 9, 1942 in the seminary in Olinda, where he studied philosophy. In 1945 he moved to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and completed his theological studies in 1951. Colégio Pio Brasileiro On he graduated from 1949 to 1951, a licentiate in canon law. He received on 12 March 1949, the ordination to the priesthood in Rome. Rodrigues Alves was a curate in the parish of St. Therese in Garanhuns later Spiritual Director of the Seminary of Garanhuns and Rector of the Minor Seminary of St. Joseph in Garanhuns.

Pope John XXIII. appointed him in 1962 the first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Palmares in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The episcopal ordination in Garanhuns donated to him on September 16, 1962 José Adelino Dantas, bishop of Garanhuns; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Sobral, João José da Mota e Albuquerque, and Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Auxiliary Bishop of Belo Horizonte.

Rodrigues Alves was a Council Father and participants of all four sessions of Vatican Council II in 1962 until 1965. He was president of the Sociedade Brasileira de Canon Followings (SBC ).

His age-related resignation was accepted in 2000 by Pope John Paul II.