Brazil: Capela Nova-born prelate succeeds Bishop Andreassa as Ituiutaba Diocese chief shepherd

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May 22, 2025

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Bishop Valter Magno de Carvalho

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The Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Irineu Andreassa, O.F.M., from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Ituiutaba, Brazil, and appointed Bishop Valter Magno de Carvalho as his successor.

Bishop Carvalho, 52, a native of Capela Nova in the state of Minas Gerais, brings with him a rich pastoral and academic background. Until now, he served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and held the titular see of Giufi. His episcopal ministry has been marked by close engagement with clergy formation and seminary education.

Ordained a priest in 1997 for the Archdiocese of Mariana, Carvalho has served as seminary rector, diocesan administrator, parish priest, and theology professor. Within the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, he is a member of the Episcopal Commission for Ordained Ministers and Consecrated Life.

Bishop Irineu Andreassa, a Franciscan friar, had led the Diocese of Ituiutaba since 2016. His resignation, in accordance with canon law, was accepted by the Pope upon reaching the age limit or for reasons of health or discernment.

The Diocese of Ituiutaba, located in the ecclesiastical province of Uberaba, now looks to its new shepherd for continuity and renewed pastoral zeal.

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Daily Reading

Monday of the Twelfth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Genesis 12,1-9.

The LORD said to Abram: "Go forth from... the land of your kinsfolk and from your father's house to a land that I will show you.
I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the communities of the earth shall find blessing in you."
Abram went as the LORD directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Abram took his wife Sarai, his brother's son Lot, all the possessions that they had accumulated, and the persons they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Abram passed through the land as far as the sacred place at Shechem, by the terebinth of Moreh. (The Canaanites were then in the land.)
The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the LORD and invoked the LORD by name.
Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.

Psalms 33(32),12-13.18-19.20.22.

Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the... people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
He sees all mankind.

See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.

Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield,
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 7,1-5.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Stop judging, that... you may not be judged.
For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?
How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye?
You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye."

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