Departures of note

Monsenhor Robério Camilo da Silva was a Brazilian Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Natal, born in Poço Branco, Rio Grande do Norte, on 10 December 1959. He was ordained a priest on 15 August 1987 and devoted nearly four decades of his ministry to the Church's social action, working with the Serviço de Assistência Rural e Urbana (SAR), Cáritas, the Pastoral da Sobriedade and the Campanha da Fraternidade. He held a master's degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. He served as vicar-general of the Archdiocese of Natal during the pastoral government of Dom Matias Patrício de Macedo and taught at the Seminário de São Pedro for decades. At the time of his death he was vicar episcopal for social institutions, parish priest of the Paróquia de Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the Mãe Luiza neighborhood of Natal, president of the Centro Sócio-Pastoral Nossa Senhora da Conceição and archdiocesan coordinator of the Pastoral da Sobriedade. He died on 18 October 2026 in Natal at age 66 from pulmonary sepsis, after being diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome.