Clemente Isnard

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Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea Isnard OSB (born July 8, 1917 in Rio de Janeiro , † August 24, 2011 in Recife ) was a Brazilian clergyman and bishop of Nova Friburgo .

Life

José Carlos Isnard began in 1931 to study at the law faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro , which he graduated in 1935 with a bachelor's degree in law and social sciences . He then joined the Benedictine order in Rio de Janeiro , took the religious name Clemente and made perpetual vows on July 11, 1940 . He was ordained a priest on December 19, 1942 .

On April 23, 1960 Pope John XXIII appointed him . the first bishop of the diocese of Nova Friburgo, established four weeks earlier . The apostolic nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Armando Lombardi , donated him episcopal ordination on July 25 of the same year . Co- consecrators were Bernard Denis Stewart , Bishop of Olinda e Recife , and Daniel Tavares Baeta Neves , Bishop of Januária .

Clemente Isnard participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a council father. He was a member of the National Council for the Implementation of the Liturgy Constitution of the Council (1964–1969), Vice President of the Brazilian Bishops 'Conference CNBB (1979–1982), Head of the Liturgy Committee of the Latin American Bishops' Conference CELAM (1979–1982) and Second Vice President of CELAM (1983–1987 ). He was a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Order of the Sacraments in Rome. In 1967 he took part in the first Synod of Bishops and was a participant in the Latin American Bishops General Assemblies in Puebla in 1979 and in Santo Domingo in 1992.

On July 17, 1992, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. In 1994 he was appointed vicar general of the neighboring diocese of Duque de Caxias , which he held until 2004.

In his book Thoughts of a bishop to today's religious institutions ( port. : Reflexões de um bispo sobre as instituições eclesiásticas atuais ) continued Isnard for an end to the compulsory celibacy and the ordination of women a.

Honors

The Centro de Liturgia Dom Clemente Isnard in São Paulo has been named after Clemente Isnard since 2009 . It is a university institute affiliated with the Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo (UNISAL), where liturgical science , church music and Christian art can be studied.

Works

  • Thoughts of a bishop on today's church institutions . Edition New Paths, Gösing am Wagram 2009, ISBN 978-3-902061-15-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bishop Clemente Isnard: Priests should be able to marry , Rentapriest, July 7, 2008. Retrieved August 26, 2011.
  2. ↑ Centro de Liturgia Dom Clemente Isnard , accessed on July 18, 2019.
predecessor Office successor
- Bishop of Nova Friburgo
1960–1992 		Alano Maria Pena OP
personal data
SURNAME Isnard, Clemente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isnard, Clemente José Carlos de Gouvea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian religious, Bishop of Nova Friburgo
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2011
Place of death Recife