Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the eparchy of San Gregorio di Narek en Buenos Aires” of the Armenians, Argentina
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the apostolic exarchate for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico for Brazil
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the apostolic exarchate for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico for Uruguay
Resignation and appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan archdiocese of Aparecida, Brazil, presented by Archbishop Orlando Brandes.
The Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Mário Antônio da Silva as metropolitan archbishop of Aparecida, transferring him from the metropolitan see of Cuiabá.
Curriculum vitae
Archbishop Mário Antônio da Silva was born on 17 October 1966 in Itararé, in the diocese of Itapeva, São Paulo. After studying philosophy and theology at the Divino Mestre diocesan seminary in Jacarezinho-PR, he was awarded a licentiate in moral theology at the Pontifical Alphonsian Academy of Rome.
He was ordained a priest on 21 December 1991, and incardinated in the diocese of Jacarezinho.
He has held the following offices: spiritual director and then rector of the Nossa Senhora da Assunção Minor Seminary; vocational pastoral coordinator; diocesan pastoral coordinator; professor of moral theology; spiritual director of the Divino Mestre Major Seminary; parish priest of Sagrado Coração de Jesus in Jacarezinho-PR; chancellor of the diocesan Curia; second vice-president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil and president of the Norte 1 Region of the same Bishops’ Conference.
He was appointed titular bishop of Arena and auxiliary of the archdiocese of Manaus on 9 June 2010, and received episcopal ordination the following 20 August. On 22 June 2016 he was appointed as bishop of Roraima, and on 23 February 2022, transferred as metropolitan archbishop of Cuiabá.
He is currently member of the Council for the National Shrine of Nossa Senhora Aparecida and president of Brazilian Caritas.
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the eparchy of “San Gregorio di Narek en Buenos Aires” of the Armenians, Argentina
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of apostolic administrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the eparchy of “San Gregorio di Narek en Buenos Aires” of the Armenians presented by Bishop Vartan Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B., and has appointed Archbishop Jorge Garcia Cuerva, metropolitan of Buenos Aires and ordinary for eastern faithful resident in Argentina and without a hierarchy of their own sui iuris Church, as apostolic administrator sede vacante of the same circumscription.
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the apostolic exarchate for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico for Brazil
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of apostolic exarch for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico presented by Bishop Vartan Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B., and has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Odilo Scherer, metropolitan archbishop of São Paulo, as apostolic administrator sede vacante of the same circumscription for Brazil.
Resignation and appointment of apostolic administrator of the apostolic exarchate for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico for Uruguay
The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of apostolic exarch for faithful of Armenian rite resident in Latin America and Mexico presented by Bishop Vartan Waldir Boghossian, S.D.B., and has appointed His Eminence Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., metropolitan archbishop of Montevideo, as apostolic administrator sede vacante of the same circumscription for Uruguay.
