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(ANS – Rome) – Salesian Provincial Superior appointments by the Rector Major are coming in rapid sequence. Today, 23 December, after consulting the other members of his Council, Fr Pascual Chávez appointed Fr Orestes Carlinhos Fistarol, until now Provincial of Brazil-Porto Alegre as the new Provincial for Brazil-Belo Horizonte Province.
Fr Fistarol was born 12 April 1966 at Guaricanas and entered the Salesian novitiate at Curitiba in 1983. He professed his perpetual vows on 11 January 1990 at Vacaria and was ordained priest at Ascurra on 13 December 1992.
He has been Vice Rector and Rector at Curitiba, as well as Rector of the Provincial House in Porto Alegre (BPA). Again in BPA Province he has also been a Councillor and Vice Provincial, then Delegate for Youth Ministry and Vocations.
He took part in the 26th General Chapter as Provincial Delegate and subsequently in May 2008 became Provincial of Porto Alegre. Fr Fistarol succeeds Fr Nilson Farias dos Santos.
Published 23/12/2013