Sister Id\u00edlia Maria Moreira G. Carneiro was born in Mozambique in 1966 and joined the Congregation of the Sisters Hospitallers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1984. She has a degree in Social Work from the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences in Lisbon. She has a Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Ethics in Health and a Postgraduate Degree in Human Resources Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her hospital experience has been mainly in the field of management and accompaniment of the hospital mission and in the animation of the Province and Communities. In addition, she has served as Managing Director of the Bom Jesus Health Centre in Braga, and as Provincial Vicar, coordinating the Province’s Centres and the Hospitaller Mission area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The community of sisters, after a process of discernment, elected me as Superior General. And still with mixed feelings within me, I would like to thank you for your prayers, for your friendly presence throughout this time of the Chapter and, above all, for continuing to entrust to God this journey which, as a congregation, as a Hospitaller family, we are making”<\/em>, she said with emotion as she addressed her first words to the Hospitaller community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n