Moacyr José Vitti (November 30, 1940 – June 26, 2014) was a Catholic archbishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1967, Vitti was named

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox a ...

of ''Sita'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of

Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Brazil. The city's population was 1,948,626 , making it the eighth most populous city in Brazil and the largest in Brazil's South Region. The Curitiba Metropolitan area c ...

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in 1988. In 2002 he was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Piracicaba and then in 2004 was appointed Archbishop of Curitiba. He died on June 26, 2014, at the age of 73.ARCHBISHOP MOACYR J. VITTY, C.S.S. IS CALLED BACK TO FATHER’S HOME

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1940 births 2014 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil Roman Catholic archbishops of Curitiba Roman Catholic bishops of Piracicaba {{Brazil-RC-archbishop-stub