Bishop of Livramento de Nossa Senhora
Vicente de Paula Ferreira, C.SS.R., is Bishop of Livramento de Nossa Senhora, Bahia. He was born on 27 October 1970 in Araraí, in the Diocese of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, in the State of Espírito Santo. He studied philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, where he obtained a licentiate and a degree in science of religion. He then studied theology at the Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia in Belo Horizonte and specialized in psychology at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. He made religious profession as a Redemptorist on 12 December 1992 and was ordained a priest on 16 November 1996. He served as vocational promoter in 1997, formator of the pre-novitiate from 1998 to 2002, formator of the aspirancy from 2003 to 2005, president of the Union of Redemptorists of Brazil from 2005 to 2011, provincial superior of the Province of Rio de Janeiro-Minas Gerais-Espírito Santo from 2005 to 2014, member of the Alphonsian Academy of Rome from 2012 to 2017, and formator of theology students of the Redemptorist Congregation, Province of Rio, in Belo Horizonte from 2014 to 2017. He was elected titular bishop of Castra nova and auxiliary bishop of Belo Horizonte on 8 March 2017, and received episcopal ordination on 27 May 2017.