(ANS – Rome) – The Rector Major, with the agreement of his Council has appointed Fr Edson Donizetti Castilho Superior of the “Mary Help of Christians” Province of San Paolo, Brazil, for the next six years. The news was given yesterday, 11 December, in a communication from the Provincial Centre.

Fr Castilho, born in 1963, at the time of his appointment was Vice Rector of the “St. Teresa of the Child Jesus” community in San Paolo and since 2009, a Provincial Councillor. He succeeds  Fr Marco Biaggi.

The installation ceremony will take place on 20 December at San Paolo in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Published 12/12/2011