José Afonso Ribeiro

José Afonso Ribeiro TOR ( born October 28, 1929 in Pocone, Mato Grosso, Brazil, † November 10, 2009 in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) was prelate of Borba.

Life

José Afonso Ribeiro joined the Congregation of the regulated Tertiaries of St.. Francis at and received on 7 December 1958, the ordination.

John Paul II named him the 1979 titular bishop of Bagis and appointed him auxiliary bishop in the diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres. He received on 5 May of the same year the bishop consecration by Archbishop Carmine Rocco, the Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Rio do Sul, Tito Buss, and the Bishop of Sao Luiz de Caceres, Máximo André Biennès.

In 1988 he was appointed Prelate of the Prelature of Borba in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related retirement request granted.

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