Bishop of Cruz Alta
Bishop Nélio Domingos Zortea was born on 1 December 1963 in Iraí, in the diocese of Frederico Westphalen, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.He carried out his studies in philosophy in the Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Arnaldo Busatto in Toledo and in theology in the Centro Interdiocesano de Teologia in Cascavel, Paraná. He received priestly ordination on 12 October 1995, and was incardinated in the archdiocese of Cascavel. He has held the following offices: assistant, bursar and rector of the São José Minor Seminary; notary and judge auditor of the Ecclesiatical Chamber; head of extraordinary ministries of the Eucharistic Communion; parish priest of Nossa Senhora de Fátima; member of the College of Consultors, the Presbyteral Council and the Council of Economic Affairs; vicar general; and parish priest of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Cathedral. On 18 November 2015 he was appointed as bishop of Jataí and received episcopal ordination on 30 January 2016.