On 10 December 1983, Lisboa received priestly ordination from the hands of Francisco Manuel Vieira, then bishop auxiliary of São Paulo.

Returning to Brazil in 2010, the following year he was appointed parish priest of Santa Teresinha de Lisieux in Colombo, in the Archdiocese of Curitiba.

[4] He was involved in attempting to mitigate the Insurgency in Cabo Delgado, in which Islamist terrorist groups motivated by oil exploration in the region attack Christians.

[5] On 11 February 2021, Lisboa was appointed bishop of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim,[1] at the same time conferring him the title of Archbishop ad personam.

[4] At the same time Pope Francis also appointed António Juliasse Ferreira Sandramo, an auxiliary bishop of Maputo, as the apostolic administrator of Pemba.