Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis

Antônio da Silva Lino Dinis, also Dom Antônio Lino, ( born February 22, 1943 in Vila Nova de Famalicão, District of Braga, Portugal, † December 1, 2013 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Itumbiara.

Life

Antônio da Silva Lino Dinis received on August 15, 1966 in Braga, Portugal, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He came to Brazil in 1967 and was pastor of the Cathedral of Santo Antônio of Sete Lagoas. After a postgraduate course for priestly spirituality in Rome, he was Spiritual Director of the Seminary of St. Pius X in Sete Lagoas. From 1988 to 1991 he was a parish priest in his home diocese of Braga in Portugal. In 1991 he returned to Sete Lagoas and built the parish of St. Peter and founded the Education House Santa Casa de Nossa Senhora Graces. In 1994 he became rector of the Seminary of St. Pius X.

On 24 February 1999, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Itumbiara. The Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil, Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda, donated to him on 1 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Sete Lagoas, José de Lima, and the Archbishop of Braga, Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortigas. His motto was In Christ Omnibus (Col. 3:11).

He died of a heart attack.