Background
SILVA, Augusto Alvaro da was born on April 8, 1876 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
SILVA, Augusto Alvaro da was born on April 8, 1876 in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Educated Institute Primário Pestalozzi (Rio de Janeiro), Ginásio Pernambucano (Recife), Seminário de Olinda (Pernambuco).
Director, Seminário de Olinda, 1900-1903. Vicar, Igreja Sâo Jose, Recife, 1903-1911, bishop of Floresta, Pernambuco, 1911-1914, of Barra, Bahia, 1914-1925. Archbishop of Bahia since 1925.
Honors: Secret chamberlain of Pope Pius X. Assistant, to pontifical throne. Roman count.; J. Raymundo Honorio da Silva and Amélia Elisa Ramos.