Alfredo Ernest Novak

Alfredo Ernest Novak (June 2, 1930 – December 3, 2014) was an American born bishop in the Catholic Church. He was the second bishop of the Diocese of Paranaguá in the state of Parana, Brazil from 1989-2006.

Biography

Alfred Novak was born in Dwight, Nebraska. He was educated at the Redemptorist Minor Seminary, St. Joseph’s College, in Kirkwood, Missouri. He attended novitiate in De Soto, Missouri where he professed religious vows as a Redemptorist in the St. Louis Province. He studied for the priesthood at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin^[1] and was ordained there on July 2, 1956.

Novak served as a missionary in Brazil until April 19, 1979 when Pope John Paul II named him Titular Bishop of Vardimissa and Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo. He was ordained a bishop by Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns of São Paulo. The principal co-consecrators were Bishops José Ivo Lorscheiter of Santa Maria and Aloísio Ariovaldo Amaral, C.Ss.R. of Limeira. He served the archdiocese for ten years. On March 15, 1989 John Paul II named Novak as the second bishop of Paranaguá. He served the diocese as its bishop for 17 years before Pope Benedict XVI accepted his resignation on August 2, 2006, and he became bishop emeritus.^[2]

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