Bernardo Filipe Governo, OFMCap (20 January 1939 − 20 October 2013) was a Mozambican Capuchin friar and bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
Life Bernardo Filipe Governo entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and was ordained a priest on 4 October 1969. Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Quelimane on 31 May 1976. The apostolic delegate in Mozambique, Francesco Colasuonno, consecrated Governo on 10 October of the same year; co-consecrators were Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, Coadjutor Bishop of Beira, and Alberto Setele, Bishop of Inhambane.
On 10 March 2007, Pope Benedict XVI granted his request for resignation for health reasons. Bernardo Filipe Governo
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