Padre Bernardo

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Padre Bernardo is a small city and municipality north of the Federal District of Brazil in Goiás state, Brazil. The name Padre Bernardo was official in 1955, named after and in recognition to the work of to the catholic priest of Luziânia, Bernardo Stocker, a German missioner, who often visited the new city to conduct weddings ceremonies, baptize, and ministry the religious necessities of the bernardian (people from Padre Bernardo) population. Padre Bernard Stocker died in 1955 and is buried in a chapel at the city of Luziania-GO. In 1963, by a project law, authorship by the State of Goias Legislative Representant, Mr. Olinto Meireles, and by the Goias state law number 4797, the district was elevated to the category of Municipality, being part of the judiciary county of Luziania.