João Corso

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João Corso SDB (born March 30, 1928 in Cajobí ; † October 15, 2014 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Campos .

Life

João Corso joined the religious community of the Salesians of Don Bosco and made profession in 1944 . He studied philosophy and theology as well as pastoral sociology in Rome and Gregorian chant in Rio de Janeiro. He was ordained a priest on August 30, 1953 . He studied canon law and received his doctorate in 1957 from the Pontifical University of the Salesians in Rome . He was a professor of canon law, civil law, moral theology and spirituality at the Institute of Pius XI. of the Centro Universitário Salesiano de São Paulo (UNISAL) in São Paulo, the Pontifical University of the Salesians in Rome and the Institute for Canon Law (PISDC Pontifício Instituto Superior de Direito Canônico) in Rio de Janeiro. He was a church attorney, judicial vicar and president of the diocesan court of São Paulo. He was an advisor to the Congregation for the Clergy and the Commission for the Interpretation of Legal Texts . From 1996 to 2003 he was chairman of the ecclesiastical court of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro. He was also a pastor in São Paulo and São Carlos.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Campos on October 12, 1990 . The Archbishop of Niterói , Carlos Alberto Etchandy Gimeno Navarro , gave him episcopal ordination on December 8th of the same year ; Co-consecrators were Antônio Barbosa SDB, senior archbishop of Campo Grande , and Karl Josef Romer , auxiliary bishop in São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro . His episcopal motto was "My life is Christ."

On November 22, 1995, Pope John Paul II accepted his early, health-related resignation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Morre, anos 85 anos, Dom João Corso ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Brazilian Bishops' Conference, accessed October 16, 2014 (pt.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cnbb.org.br
  2. ↑ Morre Bispo Emérito de Campos, Dom João Corso , fmanha.com.br, October 15, 2014 (pt.)
predecessor Office successor
Carlos Gimeno Navarro Bishop of Campos
1990–1995 		Roberto Gomes Guimarães
personal data
SURNAME Corso, João
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Campos
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cajobí
DATE OF DEATH 15th October 2014
Place of death São Paulo