Bishop of São João da Boa Vista
Bishop Eugênio Barbosa Martins, S.S.S., Bishop of São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brazil, was born on 5 September 1960 in Araguari, Diocese of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais. He completed philosophy studies at Faculdade São Bento in São Paulo-SP and theology studies at Instituto Teológico São Paulo-ITESP in São Paulo-SP. He made religious profession on 25 January 1984 in the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, the Sacramentines, and received priestly ordination on 24 January 1988. He held the following offices: vocational promoter and formator of the aspirancy and postulancy in Belo Horizonte-MG from 1988 to 1996; novice master in Uberaba-MG from 1999 to 2002; pastor of Ressurreição in Uberaba-MG from 1997 to 2002; provincial superior from 2002 to 2010; provincial treasurer from 2010 to 2011; pastor of Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem in Belo Horizonte-MG from 2006 to 2011; president of the Latin American Conference of the Sacramentines and of the Conference of Religious of Brazil, Belo Horizonte section. From 2011 to 2023 he was superior general of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in Rome.