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Brazil’s first mission bishop
Missionary recalled to head new diocese
Catholics in both Brazil and Guinea Bissau expressed delight with the news that Father Carlos Pedro Zilli, a Brazilian priest who once spent 14 years as a missionary in the African country, will soon become the first bishop of a new diocese in Guinea-Bissau. The Fides news service observed that Father Zilli, a PIME missionary, will be the first Brazilian to become diocesan bishop in a missionary territory outside Brazil itself. He will head the new diocese of Bafata.
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