Jaime de Barros Câmara
Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara (born July 3, 1894 in São José , † February 18, 1971 in Aparecida ) was Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and participant in all sessions of the Second Vatican Council .
Life
Youth and Early Years of the Priesthood
The second legitimate child from the marriage of orphan clerk Joaquim Xavier de Oliveira, born in San José in 1856, and Anna Barros de Carvalho, born in Salvador da Bahia in 1864 , entered the seminary in São Leopoldo . He was the male descendant of João Gonçalves Zarco , the rediscoverer of Madeira Island .
The Bishop of Santa Catarina , Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira , donated the sacrament of ordination to him on January 1, 1920 . He was the rain of the seminary Nossa Senhora de Lourdes Azambuja-Brusque and rector of the sanctuary Santuário de Nossa Senhora do Caravaggio de Azambuja from 1927 to 1936. Pope Pius XI. appointed him chaplain to His Holiness on April 18, 1935 .
bishop
Pope Pius XI appointed him on December 19, 1935 as the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Mossoró . The Archbishop of Florianópolis , Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira , donated him episcopal ordination on February 2nd of the next year in Florianópolis ; Co- consecrators were Pio de Freitas Silveira CM , Bishop of Joinville , and Daniel Henrique Hostin OFM , Bishop of Lages . He chose Ignem Veni Mittere as his motto .
He was appointed Archbishop of Belém do Pará on September 15, 1941, and was appointed to office on January 1 of the following year. During his tenure he promoted the reform of the study in the seminary. On July 3, 1943, he was appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and introduced to the office on September 15 of the same year. He supported the establishment of Eastern Church communities in Brazil, z. B. through the establishment of the church Igreja de São Basílio ( Melkite Greek Catholic Church ).
On November 6, 1950, Pope Pius XII appointed him . first archbishop of the Brazilian military ordinariate established on the same date . He held this office until his successor was appointed on November 9, 1963.
cardinal
Pope Pius XII took him on February 18, 1946 as a cardinal priest in the college of cardinals . On February 22nd of the same year, the Pope assigned him the titular church of Santi Bonifacio e Alessio . He was papal legate at the National Eucharistic Congress in Porto Alegre in October 1948 and participated in the Inter-American Congress of the Association of Catholic Education in Rio de Janeiro in 1951 and in the National Eucharistic Congress in Curitiba in March 1960. In 1958 and 1963 he took part in the conclave that Johannes XXIII. and Paul VI. chose, part.
literature
- Ivo Calliari : D. Jaime Câmara: diário do Cardeal Arcebispo do Rio de Janeiro. Léo Christiano Editorial, Rio de Janeiro 1996, p. 644.
- Luis D. Gardel: Les Armoiries Ecclésiastiques du Brésil (1551-1962). Rio de Janeiro 1963.
- Guia histórico e catálogo da Arquidiocese de Belém. Belém 1982, p. 45.
- Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos : Cronologia eclesiástica do Pará. Falângola, Belém 1985, p. 305.
Web links
- Câmara, Jaime de Barros. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 7, 2016.
- Entry on Jaime de Barros Câmara on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 7, 2016.
- Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barros Câmara, Jaime de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian clergyman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | São José |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th February 1971 |
| Place of death | Aparecida |