Simião Purificação Fernandes is the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman in India since 2024.
Priesthood Fernandes was ordained a priest on 10 May 1993 and became priest of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. He worked mainly as a parish priest, but was also a lecturer at the patriarchal seminary in Rachol (2005–2018) and director of the archdiocesan Pastoral Institute of St. Pius X (2018–2024).
Episcopate On 6 April 2024, Pope Francis appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Goa and Daman with the titular see of Saldae.
On 17 June 2024, he was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão. The co-consecrators were bishops Theodore Mascarenhas and Aleixo das Neves Dias.
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