Irineu Roque Scherer (15 December 1950 – 2 July 2016) was a

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bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1978. Scherer served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Garanhuns,

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, from 1998 to 2007. He then served as bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Joinville The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Joinville () is the metropolitan of an ecclesiastical province in Santa Catarina, in the Southern Region of Brazil. It was a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Florianópolis, also in Santa Cata ...

from 2007 until his death.Diocese of Joinville
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