João Batista Portocarrero Costa (born June 7, 1904 in Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil, January 6, 1959) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic clergyman and coadjutor bishop of Olinda e Recif. Edit LifeQualtext João Batista Portocarrero Costa received the sacrament of priestly ordination on 30 October 1927.
Pope Pius XII. appointed him Bishop of Mossoró on July 31, 1943. The Archbishop of Olinda e Recife, Miguel de Lima Valverde, gave him the bishop's ordination on the 7th November of that year; Co-conspirators were Adalberto Accioli Sobral, Bishop of Pesqueira, and Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas, Bishop of Garanhuns.
On 3 July 1953, the Pope appointed him the coadjutor bishop of Olinda e Recife and the titular archbishop of Selge. Weblinks Edit sourcetext
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