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The archbishop emeritus of Paraíba Dom Aldo di Cillo Pagotto died on Tuesday afternoon (14), in Fortaleza, Ceará. Dom Aldo was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of a private city hospital after the worsening of a crisis of respiratory failure. The information was confirmed by the Archdiocese of Paraíba and Ceará.
According to the Archdiocese of Paraíba, the priest had symptoms similar to those of Covid-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, but there is no confirmation of the infection. He G1 He tried to contact the Ceará State Department of Health to find out if the case was reported, but was unable to contact him.
In a note, Unimed Fortaleza reported that Dom Aldo was hospitalized due to pneumonia in the hospital on April 1 and died on Tuesday (14), at 2 in the afternoon, due to a respiratory infection.
According to the Archdiocese of Fortaleza, Dom Aldo was undergoing treatment for cancer and on Monday night (13) he had difficulty breathing, was intubated and transferred to the ICU.
Dom Aldo died at the age of 70 in Fortaleza, where he lived since he resigned as archbishop and ministered at the São Benedito Sanctuary, in the center of the capital of Ceará.
/s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2012/06/07/procissao4.jpg "Dom Aldo Pagotto celebrates mass in the São Francisco Church, in João Pessoa, one month before resigning as archbishop - Photo: Daniel Peixoto / G1 / Arquivo")
Dom Aldo Pagotto celebrates mass in the São Francisco Church, in João Pessoa, one month before resigning as archbishop – Photo: Daniel Peixoto / G1 / Arquivo
Dom Aldo was born in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, in the interior of São Paulo. He was ordained an elder in 1977 and a bishop in 1997 in Ceará. He was in the Diocese of Sobral until 2004, when he arrived in Paraíba. He was in charge of the Catholic Church in the João Pessoa region for 12 years, and left office in 2016 for health reasons.
“I tried to give the best of myself, despite the serious health limitations, in addition to the repercussions on emotional balance, caused by the constant need to overcome inevitable conflicts, derived from the reactions to my way of being and acting”, Dom Aldo said in a letter sent to the Vatican.
/s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2015/08/15/dom-aldo.jpg "Dom Aldo Pagotto, during the Consecration Act of the Archdiocese, Families and the State in 2015 - Photo: Valéria Sinésio / Jornal da Paraíba / Archive")
Dom Aldo Pagotto, during the Consecration Act of the Archdiocese, Families and the State in 2015 – Photo: Valéria Sinésio / Jornal da Paraíba / Archive
In 2002, when he was bishop in Sobral, Ceará, Dom Aldo was denounced for allegedly trying to cover up cases of sexual abuse by a priest against 21 girls, but the Ceará Court of Justice closed the case.
During his life as a bishop in Paraíba, he also suffered reports of sexual exploitation of minors in the archdiocese, but the investigation was closed in 2017. After his resignation, he became archbishop emeritus of Paraíba and moved to Fortaleza, Ceará, in a house of the congregation in which he participated.
/s.glbimg.com/jo/g1/f/original/2016/07/06/dom_aldo_pagotto_pag.especial_cad.caderno_1_francisco_franca_448586_mcKa7T1.jpg "Dom Aldo Pagotto was Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba - Photo: Francisco França / Jornal da Paraíba")
Dom Aldo Pagotto was Archbishop Emeritus of Paraíba – Photo: Francisco França / Jornal da Paraíba
