Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Roman Catholic Bishop
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Place of Birth: Rebordões, Porto District, Portugal
About Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva
- Luís Gonzaga Ferreira da Silva, S.J.
- (April 2, 1923 – August 7, 2013) was a Portuguese Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Silva was born in Rebordões, Portugal and ordained a priest on July 11, 1953 from the religious order of the Society of Jesus.
- He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Lichinga on November 10, 1972 and ordained on December 17, 1972.
- He retired from the Diocese of Lichinga on January 25, 2003.
- After his retirement he returned to the Angonia district on the other side of the Lake Malawi, where he came from Portugal as a missionary priest from the Society of Jesus in the 50's.
- and served as assistant parish priest among the Christian communities there.
- He died on August 7, 2013 a week after a heart attack.
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