Geraldo Verdier

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Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier (born March 28, 1937 in Alban , Département Tarn ; † October 22, 2017 in Porto Velho ; born: Gérard Jean Paul Roger Verdier ) was a French clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Guajará-Mirim .

Life

Gérard Verdier was born the youngest of six children to a blacksmith. At the age of 13 he met François-Xavier Rey, the bishop of the territorial prelature Guajará-Mirim , during his home visit and decided to become a missionary . He entered the novitiate of the Franciscans of the Third Order at the Church of Notre Dame de la Drêche in Albi and studied philosophy with the Franciscans of the First Order in Béziers in southern France and theology at the Catholic Institute in Paris . He then joined his friar Sylvain Dourel, the founder of the Lettre d'Amazonie , and was active in the mission in Guajará . On June 29, 1962 Geraldo Verdier for the territorial prelate Guajará-Mirim was a deacon, and on 30 March 1963 priests ordained .

In 1964 Geraldo Verdier took over the leadership of the Apostolic College of the Franciscans of the Third Order of Mogi-Mirim in the state of São Paulo . From 1975 he worked in the Guajará-Mirim prelature and looked after congregations on the tributaries of the Amazon. From 1978 to 1980 he was Apostolic Administrator of the Guajará-Mirim Prelature (since 1979: Diocese of Guajará-Mirim).

Pope John Paul II appointed Geraldo Verdier Bishop of Guajará-Mirim on July 31, 1980. The Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil , Archbishop Carmine Rocco , donated him episcopal consecration on October 25 of the same year; Co- consecrators were João Batista Costa SDB , Bishop of Porto Velho , and Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda TOR , Prelate Emeritus of Guajará-Mirim. As a motto he chose Deus Caritas (God is love). A year later he became known all over Brazil when he denounced the practice of rubber barons who cheated the rubber tappers ( seringueiros ) into buying up the rubber harvest, including through arbitrary deductions for alleged contamination. Geraldo Verdier campaigned for the indigenous population in particular in the valley of the Rio Guaporé , on the Río Mamoré and in the settlement area of ​​the Pakaa Nova . He was considered the "father of the poor".

On December 8, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. a few months before reaching the canonical age limit his health-related resignation.

After his death, Wari ' indigenous peoples held the wake .

Honors

  • In 2017 he was awarded the Rondônia State Medal of Merit.

literature

  • Gilles de Catheu: Dom Geraldo Verdier: l'option préférentielle pour les pauvres . In: La Lettre de Saint-Jacques , Vol. 2017, No. 208, pp. 26–29.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gilles de CATHEU: Dom Geraldo Verdier: l'option préférentielle pour les pauvres . In: La Lettre de Saint-Jacques , Jg. 2017, No. 208, pp. 26–29, here p. 27.
  2. ^ Paul Verdier, Denise Verdier: Jubileu de Dom Geraldo Verdier, bispo emérito de Guajará Mirim . Notícias da Terra - Comissão Pastoral da Terra de Rondônia - Brasil, April 8, 2013, accessed on October 27, 2017 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ a b Gilles de CATHEU: Dom Geraldo Verdier: l'option préférentielle pour les pauvres . In: La Lettre de Saint-Jacques , Jg. 2017, No. 208, pp. 26–29, here p. 28.
  4. ↑ a b Gilles de CATHEU: Dom Geraldo Verdier: l'option préférentielle pour les pauvres . In: La Lettre de Saint-Jacques , Jg. 2017, No. 208, pp. 26–29, here p. 26.
  5. ↑ Dr. Neidson propõe medalha de mérito legislativo a Dom Geraldo . News Rondônia, October 19, 2017, accessed October 27, 2017 (Portuguese).
predecessor Office successor
Luiz Roberto Gomes de Arruda TOR Bishop of Guajará-Mirim
1980–2011 		Benedito Araújo
personal data
SURNAME Verdier, Geraldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Verdier, Geraldo João Paulo Roger (full name); Verdier, Gérard Jean Paul Roger (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, Roman Catholic bishop of Guajará-Mirim
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Alban , Tarn department
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2017
Place of death Porto Velho