Manoel Ceia Laranjeira
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Manoel Ceia Laranjeira was a rebel Brazilian Bishop of the Independent Catholicism movement. Born in Brazil in 1903, he was still active as a Bishop until the early 1990s, and could be presumed to have died around 1996, since his succeeding Vicar General, Bishop Felismar Manoel, appears to have called a conference of bishops at that time.
Manoel Ceia Laranjeira was ordained priest by Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa in 1947 and consecrated Bishop by Roman Catholic Bishop Salomão Barbosa Ferraz in 1951. He led the Brazilian Free Catholic Church after Salomão Barbosa Ferraz's submission to the Vatican, and renamed the movement the Independent Catholic Apostolic Church of Brazil in the 1960s.
He is succeeded at the head of the movement by Roberto Garrido Padin of Salvador de Bahia.
