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Orlando Chaves (bishop)

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Orlando Chaves
S.D.B.
Archbishop of Cuiabá
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Archdiocese of Cuiabá
In office 18 December 1956 – 15 August 1981
Predecessor Francisco de Aquino Correia
Successor Bonifácio Piccinini
Previous post Bishop of Corumbá (1948-1956)
Orders
Ordination 10 July 1927
Consecration 27 May 1948
by Carlo Chiarlo[1]
Personal details
Born 17 February 1900
Campina Verde, Minas Gerais, Republic of the United States of Brazil
Died 15 August 1981 (aged 81)

Orlando Chaves S.D.B. (17 February 1900 – 15 August 1981) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop.

Chaves was born in Brazil and was ordained to the priesthood in 1927. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Corumbá, Brazil, from 1948 to 1956 and as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá, Brazil, from 1956 until his death in 1981.[2]

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