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José Alves da Costa

Brazilian priest (1939–2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2022
Entity authorityQ422149 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Alves da Costa (April 20, 1939 – December 4, 2012) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was the bishop of the Diocese of Corumbá in Brazil.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1965, he was named bishop in 1986 and resigned in 1999.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “José Alves da Costa” is brazilian priest (1939–2012). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through José, Alves and Costa, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 2012, 1965, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-04-20. For this dossier, José, Alves and Costa is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian priest (1939–2012)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 28, 2022. The linked authority identifier is Q422149. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 2012, 1965 and 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “José Alves da Costa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.