Anselmo Müller

Anselmo Müller MSF ( born February 22, 1932 in Santa Cruz do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, † March 24, 2011 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul ) was a Brazilian religious clergyman and Roman Catholic Bishop of Januaria.

Life

Anselmo Müller, one of ten children of a family of bakers with German ancestors came with 22 years in the seminary of Passo Fundo and initially completed his high school education. He then joined the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Family and studied Catholic theology and philosophy in Passo Fundo. Anselmo Müller received on 10 December 1961, the ordination by João Cláudio Colling. He was initially in several communities in southern Brazil and Santa Catarina worked. 1964 to 1968 he worked in Rio de Janeiro and was involved in the meeting with João Goulart on March 13, 1964 in Central Brazil. From 1968 to 1979 he was pastor in Sao Carlos SC, then in Rio de Janeiro.

Pope John Paul II appointed him as the third bishop of the diocese Januaria. He received his episcopal consecration on 24 June 1984, the Bishop of Santa Cruz do Sul, Alberto Frederico Etges; Co-consecrators were José Ivo Lorscheiter, Bishop of Santa Maria, and Agostinho Willy Kist SJ, Bishop of Diamantino. His episcopal motto was " That all may have life ." Don Anselmo Müller was a member of the Episcopal Pastoral Region 2 East cnbb ( Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais ).

His resignation in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI. granted.