Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo

Joaquim do Rêgo Rufino ( born January 14, 1926 in Picos; † August 10, 2013 in Prontomed, Teresina ) was Bishop of Parnaíba.

Life

Joaquim Rufino do Rêgo entered 1947 in the Archdiocesan seminary of Olinda and studied philosophy. In 1949 he moved to the study of Catholic theology in Rome at the Pontifical Brazilian Pius College, which he finished with a Schwerkpunkt in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He received on October 5, 1952 in Rome, the priest. He was at the Catedral Nossa Senhora da Vitória of the Diocese of Oeiras, later as Diocesan Secretary. He was pastor of Simplício Mendes and Picos, each in the state of Piauí.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 21 April 1971 for the Bishop of Quixadá. The Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil, Umberto Mozzoni, donated to him on 4 July of the same year the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Edilberto Dinkelborg OFM, Bishop of Oeiras, and Paulo Hipólito de Souza Liborio, Bishop of Parnaíba.

On March 25, 1986, he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Parnaíba. On 21 February 2001 John Paul II accepted his resignation due to age.