Angelo Maria Rivato

Angelo Maria Rivato SJ (born December 3, 1924 in San Giovanni Ilarione , † August 20, 2011 in Val d'Illasi ) was an Italian religious , missionary and Roman Catholic bishop of Ponta de Pedras in Brazil.

Life

Angelo Maria Rivato studied philosophy and theology at the Vicenza seminary and received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Vicenza on June 29, 1951 . In 1951 he joined the religious order of the Jesuits and was vicar and parish cooperator in Vincenza. In 1960 he became a missionary in Belém , Brazil ; he was involved in the focolare movement . In 1964 he became vicar general in the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on April 29, 1965 the first prelate of the territorial prelature Ponta de Pedras on the island of Marajó in the mouth of the Amazon and on June 13, 1967 titular bishop of Germania in Numidia . The apostolic nuncio in Brazil , Archbishop Sebastiano Baggio , donated him episcopal ordination on August 6 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos , Archbishop of Belém do Pará , and Giuseppe Maritano PIME , Prelate of Macapá . His episcopal motto was Ubi Caritas Ibi Deus (“Where there is love, there is God”). He was the council father of the fourth and final session of the Second Vatican Council from September 14 to December 8, 1965.

On May 26, 1978 he renounced his titular bishopric as part of the new allocation guidelines of the Roman Curia . With the elevation of the territorial prelature to the diocese, Pope John Paul II appointed him on October 16, 1979 as the first diocesan bishop of Ponta de Pedras.

On January 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He had lived in Gallarate, Italy, since 2009 and died of complications from a stroke.

Web links

• Entry on Angelo Maria Rivato on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Prelate / Bishop of Ponta de Pedras 1965–2002	Alessio Saccardo SJ