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Jun 14, 1950 Suai, Cova Lima Municipality, East Timor 73 years old
Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau, East Timor
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About Basilio Do Nascimento
- Basílio do Nascimento Martins (born 14 June 1950) is the East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau.He was born in Suai, then Portuguese Timor.
- He later moved to Portugal, where he was ordained priest in Évora, in 1977.
- He worked for 20 years in Portugal and France before returning home in 1994, which was at the time under Indonesian occupation.He became apostolic administrator of the new Diocese of Baucau on 30 November 1996 and titular bishop on 6 January 1997.
- When Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo retired, Nascimento became apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Dili, until the new bishop of Dili, Alberto Ricardo da Silva, was introduced on 6 March 2004.
- Nascimento then became bishop of Baucau. In October 1999, the President of the National Council of Timorese Resistance Xanana Gusmão thanked Bishop Nascimento for the support of the Church in the struggle for independence.Concerned that the names of the thousands of lives lost during Indonesia’s occupation of the country will be forgotten in the name of reconciliation with Indonesia, on 21 January 2006 he said that reconciliation with Jakarta without justice is meaningless.On March 31, 2018, Nascimento collapsed during Mass at St.
- Anthony's Cathedral in Baucau and was rushed to Dili National Hospital.
- He recovered and was discharged on 4 April 2018.
- He is the head of the East Timor bishop's conference.
