"Personal and intellectual qualities are not guarantees of being the right person to take on the guidance of a flock. The episcopate is a grace that must be lived pastorally. It cannot be conferred as a prize or as confirmation or as a political function."
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H. Em. Card. Geraldo MAJELLA AGNELO, Archbishop of SĂŁo Salvador da Bahia. (Brazil) (4 October 2001) Press Office of the Holy See
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Geraldo Majella Agnelo
Geraldo Majella Agnelo (19 October 1933 – 26 August 2023) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church served as the bishop of the Diocese of Toledo and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Londrina and the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia.
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