(Portuguese: Bernardo José Nolker) (September 25, 1912 – January 17, 2000) was an American member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, commonly known as the Redemptorists, who served as a missionary in Brazil for 45 years.
He studied for the Catholic priesthood at Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York, where he was ordained on June 18, 1939.
[1] Nolker had been serving as a missionary in Brazil since 1941, when Pope John XXIII named him on January 7, 1963, to be the first bishop of the newly created Diocese of Paranaguá.
The co-consecrators were Manoel da Silveira d’Elboux, Archbishop of Curitiba, and Edward John Harper, C.Ss.R., the Bishop of Saint Thomas.
Nolker died of heart failure at St. John Neumann Residence in Saratoga Springs, New York, at the age of 87.