Alfredo Ernest Novak

Alfredo Ernest Novak, C.Ss.R. ( born June 2, 1930 in Dwight ) is retired bishop of Paranaguá.

Life

Gutemberg Freire Régis joined the Congregation of the Redemptorists and received on 2 July 1956, the ordination. John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop on April 19, 1979 in São Paulo and Titular Bishop of Vardimissa.

The Archbishop of São Paulo, Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM Cardinal, gave him on 27 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were José Ivo Lorscheiter, Bishop of Santa Maria, and Aloisio Ariovaldo Amaral, C.Ss.R., Bishop of Limeira.

On 15 March 1989 he was appointed Bishop of Paranaguá. On August 2, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.