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Marinez Santos Bassotto
Brazilian Anglican bishop (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marinez Rosa dos Santos Bassotto (born 1971 or 1972) is a Brazilian Anglican bishop and primate of the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB).[1][2][3] She was the first female primate of the Anglican church in Latin America.[1]
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Bassotto was born in Canguçu, Brazil. She was ordained as deacon in 1995 after studying at the IEAB's seminary in Porto Alegre.[4]
In January 2024, Bishop Bassotto took part in a "Growing Together" ecumenical summit that took place in Rome and Canterbury as a part of the Week for Prayer for Christian Unity. Bishop Alba Sally Sue Hernández of the Diocese of Mexico in the Anglican Church of Mexico also took part in the meeting where the two women bishops from Latin America were among 27 pairs of bishops blessed by Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.[5]
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