Francisco Expedito Lopes

Francisco Expedito Lopes was a Brazilian Catholic bishop.

Biography

He was born in Sítio Jerusalém in Sobral, in the state of Ceará. He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1938, bishop in Sobral in 1948, and was elected first bishop in Oeiras, in the state of Piauí. In 1955, he was sworn in as the fifth bishop of Garanhuns in the state of Pernambuco. He founded the Institute of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Fatima of Brazil. He was the shot by Father Hosana de Siqueira e Silva in Garanhuns on July 1, 1957, and died the next day.
His motto was "Restore everything in Christ."
Considered a saint by the population, Don Acácio Rodrigues Alves became the postulator of his beatification in the Diocese of Garanhuns.