AFRICA/CAPO VERDE – Resignation and appointment of bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde

Vatican City – The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Cabo Verde, presented by His Eminence Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado.
The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp., hitherto of the diocese of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil, as bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Cabo Verde.
Bishop Teodoro Mendes Tavares, C.S.Sp., was born on 7 January 1964 in Cabo Verde. After giving his vows in the Congregation of the Spiritan Fathers, he carried out his studies in philosophy at the Higher Institute of Theology in Braga and in theology at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. He was subsequently awarded a licentiate in ecumenism at Trinity College, Dublin.
He was ordained a priest on 11 July 1993.
He was appointed titular bishop of Verbe and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Belém do Pará, Brazil, on 16 February 2011, receiving episcopal ordination the following 8 May. He was later appointed coadjutor bishop of the diocese of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil, on 10 June 2015, succeeding as bishop on 23 September 2015.

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