page_title: João Resende Costa
section_title: Episcopate
hierarchical_section_title: João Resende Costa / Episcopate
caption_attribution_description: Interior da Igreja da Boa Viagem
context_page_description: Bishop João Resende Costa, SDB was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop and a Salesian. He was the fifth Bishop of Ilhéus and the second Archbishop of Belo Horizonte. He was an attendee at the Second Vatican Council.
context_section_description: On February 25, 1953, Pope Pius XII appointed him diocesan bishop of Ilhéus and he received his episcopal consecration on May 24, 1953, in São Paulo, from the hands of Cardinal Vasconcelos Motta and Archbishops Orlando Chaves, and Dom Antônio Campelo de Aragão.
  On November 15, 1967, Pope Paul VI appointed him the second Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, a position he held until he resigned when he reach the age limit, on February 5, 1986.
  During his time as Bishop he also held the following positions:
  National Secretary of the religious, the CNBB (1964–1978).
  Secretary and Chairman of the East II Regional CNBB.
  Delegate to the Conference of Medellín (1968).
  Delegate to the Synod of Bishops (1977).
  President of the Brazilian delegation in the Interamerican Congress of Education in Havana.
  President of the Sociedade Mineira de Cultura.
  Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais.
  He died  in 2007.
caption: Interior of the Belo Horizonte Cathedral
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