Custódio Alvim Pereira (6 February 1915 – 12 November 2006) was a Portuguese clergyman, who was Archbishop of

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in Mozambique in the 1960s and early 1970s. Born in

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, Portugal, he was ordained on 18 December 1937 and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Lourenço Marques on 20 December 1958. On 8 March 1959 he was ordained as the Titular Bishop of

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. On 3 August 1962 he was appointed Archbishop of Lourenço Marques, which he held until his resignation on 26 August 1974.

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