Sérgio de Deus Borges

Bishop Borges was born in a Roman Catholic family in Alfredo Wagner, Santa Catarina.

[1] He was ordained as priest on February 6, 1993, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cornélio Procópio[2] after completed his philosophical and theological study.

Also, he graduated from the Universidade Luterana do Brasil with a licentiate degree in pedagogy, the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires with a Doctor of Canon Law degree.

[1][3] After his ordination he served as a parish priest in the different localities of his diocese and was a Rector of the Major Theological Seminary of São José (2000–2011).

In the same time he was a professor of the Canon Law in the diffenet Catholic educational institutes and worked as a judicial vicar.