Juraci Gomes de Oliveira

Juraci Gomes de Oliveira joined the Joseleitos de Cristo, a religious institute in Brasil. He studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Pernambuco. He received his diaconate ordination on August 12, 1990, by Bishop Mário Zanetta and was ordained a priest by Bishop Jackson Berenguer Prado on November 3 of the same year at the Church of Senhora Sant'Ana, Tucano. He incardinated into the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia in 1991.^[1]

Juraci Gomes de Oliveira had his further education at Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Salvador da Bahia, where he earned a licentiate in marriage and family studies. He had held positions in the archdiocese, among them, working as parish dean, episcopal vicar and seminary's spiritual director. He became a professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and the moderator of the archdiocesan curia. He was the vicar general of Archdiocese before his appointment as bishop of Amargosa by Pope Francis on May 31, 2023. He was consecrated by Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha on July 29 of the same year in Cathedral Basilica of Salvador. The co-consecrators were Archbishops Josafá Menezes da Silva and Luís Gonzaga Silva Pepeu.^[2]

• "Juraci Gomes de Oliveira". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.