Vatican Announces New Appointment: Bishop Paolo Andreolli Named Bishop of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil
The Holy See Press Office announced on October 15 that Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Paolo Andreolli, S.X., as bishop of the diocese of Ponta de Pedras, Brazil, transferring him from the titular see of Altava and his office as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Belém do Pará. Ponta de Pedras is a municipality in the state of Pará, in the Marajó island region of northern Brazil.
According to the curriculum vitae published with the Holy See bulletin, Andreolli was born on December 16, 1972, in Noventa Vicentina, in Italy's diocese of Vicenza. He made his first vows in 1994 and his perpetual vows in the Pious Society of Saint Francis Xavier for the Foreign Missions on March 5, 2000, and was ordained a priest on September 17, 2000. He worked in Desio, in the Milan area, as a missionary and vocations animator from 2000 to 2007, and was then sent to Brazil, where he served in parishes in São Félix do Xingu and Tucumã in the state of Pará before taking up vocations and formation work for the Xaverians in Belém from 2017.
Andreolli was appointed titular bishop of Altava and auxiliary bishop of Belém do Pará on February 1, 2023, and received episcopal ordination on April 15 of that year. Within the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), he is a member of the Episcopal Commission for Missionary Action and Interecclesial Cooperation. The October 15 Holy See bulletin did not announce a date for his installation in Ponta de Pedras.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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