Bishop Valter Magno de Carvalho

Bishop Valter Magno de Carvalho was born on 22 February 1973 in Capela Nova, metropolitan archdiocese of Mariana, in the State of Minas Gerais. He studied philosophy and theology at the São José Major Seminary in Mariana-MG. He was ordained a priest for the metropolitan archdiocese of Mariana on 23 August 1997. He has held the following offices: director and professor of the preparatory course, parish administrator of Santo Antônio in Correia de Almeida, district of Barbacena-MG, and of São Sebastião in Cláudio Manoel, district of Mariana-MG, parish priest of the São José Basilica in Barbacena-MG, of Nossa Senhora da Assunção in Barbacena-MG and of Nossa Senhora das Mercês in Mercês-MG, episcopal vicar, vicar forane, rector of the São José Major Seminary, director of the São Lourenço Diaconal School, member of the College of Consultors, and professor in the local Institute of Theology. On 4 November 2020 he was appointed titular bishop of Giufi and auxiliary of the metropolitan archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia, and received episcopal ordination on 23 January 2021. Within the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, he is a member of the Episcopal Commission for Ordained Ministers and Consecrated Life.