# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josafa-menezes-da-silva
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:17:51.123Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josafa-menezes-da-silva"
name: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
slug: "josafa-menezes-da-silva"
description: "Josafá Menezes da Silva is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church and holds the position of metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aracaju. His prior positions include auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia from 2005 to 2010, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Barreiras from 2010 to 2019, and metropolitan archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vitória da Conquista from 2019 to 2024."
tagline: "Brazilian archbishop"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Escudo_de_Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva.svg/330px-Escudo_de_Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva.svg.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1959-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.94
  momentum:             15.70422535211268
  historical:           7.880346666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosaphat_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Iosaphat Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josaf%C3%A1_Menezes_da_Silva"
    title: "Josafá Menezes da Silva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1704076"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump