Léo Tarcísio Gonçalves Pereira (Padre Léo)
Brazilian Dehonian priest, preacher and founder of the Bethânia Community
Who they were
A Dehonian priest and well-known preacher in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, he founded the Bethânia Community in 1995 for people with drug dependency.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
Archbishop Wilson Tadeu Jönck of Florianópolis constituted the tribunal and opened the diocesan phase on 7 March 2020; the documentation reached the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints on 28 July 2025.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Causa de beatificação do servo de Deus padre Léo entra na fase romana - ACI Digital
- Padre Léo Tarcísio, mais um dehoniano a caminho dos altares - Dehonianos
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.