Divine Mercy quasi Parish News:
Bishop
Fernando Arêas Rifan
Coming
To Vancouver
Divine Mercy quasi Parish News:
Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan Coming To Vancouver
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his is indeed a joyous occasion. Bishop
Fernando Arêas Rifan, of Campos Brazil, will be arriving in Vancouver on 27/03/03
and leaving on 06/04/03. While he is in Vancouver he will be in residence
at the Holy Rosary Cathedral and Archbishop Adam Exner has given permission
for Bishop Rifan to say a Pontifical High Mass at the Holy Rosary Cathedral
at 14:00 hours on Saturday 29th March. This will be followed by
a dinner at 17:00 hours at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Church at which Bishop Rifan
will be the guest speaker. Bishop Rifan will also perform confirmations for
the traditional community. The price of dinner tickets is $40 Canadian. On
Sunday 30th Mass will be at 12:30 at Holy Spirit Church if it looks
like the turnout will be too large then the venue may be changed to Our Lady
of Fatima Church. On Monday 31st there will be Confirmations at
19:30 at Our Lady of Fatima.
Some
comment on the historical significance is warranted. The 18th Jan./02
was an historic occasion a day which will forever live in memory. On this
day in the Cathedral of the diocese of Campos occurred the juridical recognition
of the ‘Priests of Tradition’. These
were Priests who stood with Bishop de Castro Mayer in retaining the traditional
liturgy of the Church. For a traditionalist no more need be said. On that day the Church established, at the diocesan
level, in the diocese of Campos, Brazil, a “Personal Apostolic Administration”
which goes by the name of “Saint
John Mary Vianney”.
Decretum - About the nomination
of the personal Apostolic Administrator of Saint John Mary Vianney
Translated by Prof. Carlos
Ramalhete
Congregation for the Bishops
Decreed
For the constitution of
the regimen of the Apostolic Administration "Saint John Mary Vianney",
in the territory of Campos (in Brazil), in view of the Decree of the Congregation
for the Bishops, The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II Pope by the Providence
of God, nominates and constitutes as Apostolic Administrator the Very Excellent
Lord Licinio Rangel, conferring him simultaneously the episcopal title of
the Church of Zarna, together with all rights, faculties and duties sanctioned
in the Decree of Erection of the same Apostolic Administration.
Contariis quibusvis minime
obstantibus. Given in Rome, at the
Congregation for the Bishops, at 18 January 2002
Curriculum Vitæ
Translated for the Vancouver
Traditional Mass Society by Prof. Carlos Ramalhete
Fernando Arêas Rifan was born in the in São Fidélis,
State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the Diocese of Campos on 25/10/l950. He
was admitted to the Diocesan Minor Seminary of Immaculate Mary at the age
of twelve and attended from 1963 to 1967. He attended the Diocesan Seminary
from 1968 to 1974 where he studied Philosophy and Theology.
He has a command of Latin,
French, English, Italian and Spanish. He was Ordained on 08/12/1974 at the
Cathedral/Basilica of the Most Holy Saviour in Campos at the age of 24 by
Msgr. Antônio de Castro Mayer, Diocesan Bishop.
Previous Functions and Charges:
Private
Secretary of the Diocesan Bishop (1975-1976)
Representative
of the Diocesan Bishop in receptions, congresses and inaugurations (1975-1981)
Secretary
of the Diocesan bishop in the "ad limina" visitation (june/1980)
Representative
of the Diocesan Clergy, sent by the Diocesan Bishop in regional reunions of
the clergy belonging to the First Eastern Region of the Brazilian Episcopal
Conference
Diocesan
director of Religious Education (1975-1981)
Professor
de Philosophy and Psychology at the Seminary (1973-1981)
Member
of the Priestly Council (1975-1982)
Diocesan
Consultor, chosen by the Diocesan Bishop (1975-1982)
Pastor
of Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, in the municipality of Campos (1976-1986)
Principal
and teacher at the Três Pastorinhos School (elementary and high school), Campos
(1983-2002)
On June 28, 2002 John Paul
II named him coadjutor Bishop and on the death of Bishop Rangel Bishop Rifan
became the Apostolic Administrator.
PRESENT FUNCTIONS:
General
Vicar of the Personal Apostolic Administration Saint John Mary Vianney
Member
of the Governing Council of the same Apostolic Administration
Pastor
of the Personal Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady of the Rosary of
Fatima, in the municipality of Campos, State of Rio de Janeiro
Principal
of Três Pastorinhos School, in Campos, State of Rio de Janeiro
Theology
Professor at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, of the Personal Apostolic
Administration Saint John Mary Vianney
Speaker
in daily and weekly evangelization radio shows