Teodoro Mendes Tavares

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His Excellency, The Most Reverend

Teodoro Mendes Tavares
Bishop of Ponta de Pedras
Diocese Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponta de Pedras
In officesince September 23, 2015
Predecessor Alessio Saccardo
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Born (1964-01-07) 7 January 1964 (age 60)

Teodoro Mendes Tavares (born 7 January 1964) is a Cape Verdean Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Ponta de Pedras in Brazil since 2015. [1] He is the first and only Cape Verdean-born Catholic bishop in Brazil.

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Biography

He was born in the parish of São Miguel, once in the municipality of Tarrafal, now in the municipality of São Miguel.

Teodoro Tavares studied philosophy at the High Institute of Theology (Instituto Superior de Teologia) in Braga, a campus of the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Portugal from 1986 to 1987. He later studied theology at the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Portugal from 1988 to 1993.

In 1995, he obtained the title as master at Trinity College, Dublin, where he presented a dissertation "The Churches and the European Immigration Policy in the Light of the Schengen and Dublin Agreement". [2]

He was ordained priest on June 11, 1993 and went on a mission to Brazil in 1994 to the Prelate of Tefé, in Amazonas state, first he was vicar-general, from 2001 until 2011, he was parish priest in Alvarães, Carauari and Uarini.

He was ordained bishop on 8 May 2011 on his native island of Santiago by Alberto Taveira Corrêa. [1]

On September 23, 2015, he became bishop of the diocese of Ponta de Pedras in Pará. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Teodoro Mendes Tavares". Catholic Hierarchy.
  2. Tavares, Teodoro Mendes (1995). The churches and the European immigration policy in the light of the Schengen and Dublin agreement. Ireland: Trinity College, Dublin.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Ponta de Pedras
since 2015
Succeeded by
Incumbent