Armando Círio

Armando Círio OSI (actually Cirio ; born April 30, 1916 in Calamandrana , Italy ; † August 11, 2014 in Cascavel , Brazil ) was an Italian-Brazilian religious and first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cascavel .

Life

Armando Cirio joined the Order of the Oblates of Saint Joseph in Asti and was ordained a priest on June 29, 1940 . During the Second World War he was director of an orphanage, headmaster and diocesan teacher in the diocese of Asti . In 1947 he went to Brazil and became vicar and, after a year, pastor in Botucatu in the state of São Paulo . After another year he was transferred to the state of Paraná as pastor of Apucarana , where he worked as a missionary and developed a broad apostolate in the west of Paraná near the Paraguayan border.

Pope John XXIII appointed him on May 14, 1960 as the first bishop of the diocese of Toledo established in the previous year . The Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Armando Lombardi , donated him episcopal ordination on August 28 of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Geraldo Fernandes Bijos CMF , Bishop of Londrina , and Manuel da Silveira d'Elboux , Archbishop of Curitiba . On September 11th of the same year, Cirio was introduced to the office. As a bishop, his name was lusophonized to Círio for use in Brazil . His episcopal motto was Ardere et Illuminare ("Burn and enlighten").

Armando Cirio was the council father of the first and third session of the Second Vatican Council .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on May 5, 1978 first bishop of the diocese of Cascavel established on the same date . On October 16, 1979, Pope John Paul II elevated the diocese to a metropolitan bishopric with the Bull Maiori Christifidelium , making Círio the first Archbishop of Cascavel. On December 27, 1995 the Pope accepted his age-related resignation. He lived in Cascavel until his death and was most recently one of the oldest living bishops in Brazil.

literature

• Antônio Capelesso, Nilceu Jacob Deitos, Irineu Roque Scherer (eds.): Dom Armando Cirio. Apóstolo e Missionário do Oeste do Paraná. Coluna do Saber, Cascaval 2010

Web links

• Entry on Armando Círio on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 15, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Morre dom Armando Cirio, aos 98 anos ( Memento of August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Bishop of Toledo 1960–1978	Geraldo Majella Agnelo
---	Archbishop of Cascavel 1978–1995	Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner