José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça

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Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça, on October 6, 2019
Coat of arms of Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça
Coat of arms of Archbishop José Tolentino de Mendonça

José Tolentino Cardinal Calaça de Mendonça (born December 15, 1965 in Machico , Autonomous Region Madeira , Portugal ) is a Portuguese Roman Catholic clergyman and cardinal curia . Since 2018 he has been the archivist of the Vatican Apostolic Archives and librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library in the Roman Curia . He is also known as a poet . He signs his works as José Tolentino Mendonça .

Life

family

The youngest of five brothers, José Tolentino de Mendonça, was born on December 15, 1965 in Machico , Madeira Autonomous Region , Portugal . However, in the early years of his childhood he lived on the coast of Angola , where his father was a fisherman. He left Africa at the age of 9 when the Portuguese colonies were independent.

Formation and priesthood

Tolentino Mendonça began in 1982 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon the study of Catholic theology (UCP), which he in 1989 with the Licentiate completed. In 1989 he completed his theology degree at UCP. In 1990 he published his first collection of poems, Os dias contados . In 1992 he received a licentiate in Biblical Exegesis of Biblical Studies from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and in 2004 a Doctor of Biblical Theology from the UCP.

On July 28, 1990 he received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Funchal through Bishop Teodoro de Faria . From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a priest in the parish of Nossa Senhora do Livramento in Funchal, after which he was a priest in Lisbon for 5 years at the UCP, in the parish of Santa Isabel and since 2010 rector of the Chapel of Our Lady da Bonanza, better known as Capela do Rato.

Academic career

The first years of Tolentino Mendonça's priestly life are also academic. He was Professor at the Funchal Seminary, Rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome , Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP). He joined the UCP as an assistant (1996-1999) when teaching Biblical Hebrew and lecturing on "Christianity and Culture". In 2004 he received his doctorate as Professor of New Testament and Theological Aesthetics at the UCP . Since 2005 he has also worked at the Centro de Estudos de Religiões e Culturas Cardeal Höffner and as director of the magazine Didaskalia . In 2012 the UCP appointed him Vice Rector and in 2018 Director of the Faculty of Theology. He was a Straus Fellow at New York University for a year and was part of a team of visiting researchers studying religion and public space .

Tolentino Mendonça was also visiting professor at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (Unicap), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (Faje) in Belo Horizonte .

Cultural and literary work

Closer to the cultural world through his extensive work, frequent publications and interventions in the media, Tolentino Mendonça was appointed first director of the National Secretariat for Pastoral Culture in 2004, which was then appointed by the Portuguese Bishops' Conference to facilitate dialogue between the Church and the to promote national cultural environment. He has held this position for 10 years.

In 2009, after a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI , Tolentino Mendonça confessed . with an artists meeting that the gesture of hospitality of the Pope was very much appreciated and that the Pope points out that “within the Church, within the Christian space [artist] has a home, they can feel at home.” In the year In 2011, Benedict XVI appointed Tolentino Mendonça as Consultor of the Pontifical Council for Culture . Pope Francis reappointed him in 2016.

In 2018, Tolentino Mendonça was invited by Pope Francis to lead the Lent Retreats of the Pope and the Roman Curia from February 18-23. He interpreted biblical pericopes and interpreted texts by Fernando Pessoa , Clarice Lispector , Françoise Dolto , Etty Hillesum and Blaise Pascal .

Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça has been a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture since February 2020 , of which he was consultor between 2011 and 2018. In this council he is a member of the scientific commission on the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death .

On June 13th, 2020 he wins the European "Helena Vaz da Silva" award for his ability to promote beauty and poetry as part of the intangible cultural heritage of Europe and the world.

José Tolentino de Mendonça has published numerous collections of essays, spiritual writings, poems and sermons. He is considered to be one of the most original voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. His work includes poems, essays and plays. He has received numerous literary prizes.

Episcopate and Cardinalate

On 26 June 2018 it appointed Pope Francis to Titular Archbishop of Suava and the archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church. He replaced the French Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès. He took office in the Roman Curia on September 1, 2018.

The Patriarch of Lisbon, Manuel José Cardinal Macário do Nascimento Clemente , donated him the episcopal ordination on July 28, 2018 in the Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon. Co- consecrators were António Augusto Cardinal dos Santos Marto , Bishop of Leiria-Fátima and Teodoro de Faria, Bishop Emeritus of Funchal.

Archbishop Tolentino de Mendonça in front of the press after his episcopal ordination on July 28, 2018 in Belém

On September 1, 2019, Pope Francis announced that he would be admitted to the college of cardinals as a cardinal deacon in the solemn consistory of October 5, 2019 . At the creation of the cardinal, the Pope assigned him the title diakonia Santi Domenico e Sisto . The occupation of his title diakonia took place on December 15 of the same year. On February 21, 2020, Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture .

Archbishop José Tolentino Mendonça (2018)
Father José Tolentino de Mendonça in the Capela do Rato, July 22, 2018

Fonts

Books in German

  • The art of finding one's center. Herder, Freiburg 2012.
  • Our Father on earth. Herder, Freiburg 2013.

Books in Portuguese

  • Os Dias Contados, 1990 (poetry)
  • As estratégias do desejo: um discurso bíblico sobre a sexualidade, 1994 (article) - Cotovia
  • Longe nicht sabia, 1997 (Poetry) - Editorial Presença
  • A que distância deixaste o coração, 1998 (poetry)
  • Se eu quiser falar com Deus, 1996 (pastoral texts)
  • Baldios, 1999 (poetry) - Assírio & Alvim
  • Cântico dos Cânticos, 1999 - Cotovia
  • De Igual para Igual, 2000 (poetry)
  • A construção de Jesus: uma leitura narrativa de Lucas 7,36-50, 2004 (article) - Assírio & Alvim
  • A Estrada Branca, 2005 (Poesia) - Assírio & Alvim
  • Perdoar Helena, 2005 (play) - Assírio & Alvim
  • Tabuas de pedra, 2006 (poetry) - Assírio & Alvim
  • A Noite abre os meus Olhos, 2006 (poetry)
  • A leitura infinita. Bíblia e Interpretação, 2008 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Histórias escolhidas da Bíblia, 2009 - Assírio & Alvim
  • O Viajante sem Sono, 2009 (poetry)
  • O tesouro escondido, 2011 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Um deus que dança, Apostolado da oração (2011)
  • Pai-nosso que estais na terra, 2011 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Nenhum caminho será longo, 2012 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • O hipopótamo de Deus, 2013 (article) - Paulinas Editora. Livro recomendado pelo PNL, Plano Nacional de Leitura
  • Os rostos de Jesus, Temas e Debates, 2013
  • A papoila eo monge, 2013 (poetry) - Assírio & Alvim
  • O estado do bosque, 2013 (poetry) - Assírio & Alvim
  • A mística do instante, 2014 (article) - Paulinas Editora.
  • A leitura infinita, 2014 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • A construção de Jesus, 2015 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Estação central, 2015 (Poésie) - Assírio & Alvim
  • Que coisa são as nuvens ", 2015 - Expresso. A selection of the best weekly chronicles from Expresso
  • Esperar contra toda a esperança, 2015 (article) - Universidade Católica Editora
  • Desporto, ética e transcendência, 2015 (article) - Edições Afrontamento
  • A construção de Jesus, 2015 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Corrigir os que erram, 2016 (article) - Paulinas Editora
  • Teoria da fronteira, 2017 (poetry) - Assírio & Alvim
  • O Pequeno caminho das grandes perguntas, 2017 (article) - Quetzal
  • O Elogio da Sede, 2018 (article) - Quetzal. Text of the Lent Retreats of the Pope and the Roman Curia
  • Requiem pela aurora de amanhã, 2018, (leaflet of the workers on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War (first presentation on July 20, 2018 in Jerónimos Monastery), music by João Madureira).
  • Nos passos de Etty Hillesum, edited com Filipe Condado (pictures), 2019 (picture biography) - Documenta
  • Uma beleza que nos pertence (Aforismos), 2019 (article) - Quetzal
  • Palavra e vida 2020. O Evangelho comentado cada dia, 2019 (Commentary on each daily Gospel of the year) - Fundação Claret
  • O que é amar um país, 2020 (article) - Quetzal

Literary prizes

  • 1998: Poetry Prize of the City of Lisbon
  • 2005: Portuguese PEN Club award
  • 2009: Literature Prize of the Inês de Castro Foundation for O viajante sem sono
  • 2011: Finalist of the Casino da Póvoa Literature Prize
  • 2015: Finalist of the Casino da Póvoa Literature Prize
  • 2015: Res Magnae Literature Prize (Italy) in the Culture of the Meeting category (first foreigner to receive this prize)
  • 2016: Main Prize APE / CM de Loulé, awarded by the Portuguese Association of Writers and the Municipality of Loulé for Que coisa são as nuvens
  • 2016: Main poetry award Teixeira de Pascoaes for A noite abre os meus olhos
  • 2017: Special Prize Capri-San Michele (Italy)
  • 2018: "A life of ... passion" award from the Italian daily " Avvenire "
  • 2019: Co-winner of the "Cassidorio il Grande" award

honors and awards

Honors

  • Commander of the Order of Prince Heinrich, June 28, 2001
  • Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, December 4, 2015
  • Medal of Merit of the Madeira Autonomous Region, 23 December 2019
  • The President of the Portuguese Republic , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, elects Tolentino de Mendonça to chair the celebrations on Dia de Portugal 2020 at the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém

Other awards

  • He is named one of the 100 most influential Portuguese in 2012 by Revista E of the Expresso newspaper .
  • The magazine Estante der Fnac considers Tolentino Mendonça's A mística do instante to be one of the 10 most important books in the field of non-fiction.
  • Revista E of the Expresso newspaper quotes Tolentino Mendonça among "the 50 powerful, influential, innovative provocateurs and members who have shaped our lives over the past year" (June 29, 2019).
  • In its December 21 editorial, the Expresso newspaper states that its editorial team has named Tolentino Mendonça Portuguese Personality of the Year.

Web links

Commons : José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d João Francisco Gomes: Tolentino Mendonça escolhido pelo Papa para dirigir o Arquivo Secreto do Vaticano. June 26, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b UCP: José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; Retrieved July 25, 2018 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Capela do Rato: Bem-Vindos à Capela do Rato. Retrieved July 25, 2018 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ 2011-2012 Fellows. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ Cardeal Tolentino Mendonça passa a integrar Conselho Pontifício da Cultura. Retrieved February 21, 2020 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Centenario Dantesco - Comitato Scientifico Organizzativo. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (Italian).
  7. ↑ José Tolentino Mendonça vence Prémio Europeu Helena Vaz da Silva 2020. Retrieved on June 13, 2020 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Claire Lesegretain: Le père José Tolentino Mendonça, un auteur spirituel portugais aux archives du Vatican. June 26, 2018, accessed July 19, 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Vatican News: Des cardinaux de frontière pour le dialogue et la mission. September 1, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019 (French).
  10. ^ Holy See Press Office: Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli, October 5th, 2019. October 5, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 (Italian).
  11. ^ António Lobo Antunes: Zé Tolentino. May 10, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018 (Portuguese).
  12. ^ Rui Jorge Martins: Livros, poesia, Finderos: José Tolentino Mendonça entre Macau, Paris e Lisboa. October 9, 2014, accessed July 22, 2018 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ José Tolentino Mendonça propõe o silêncio a Património Imaterial da Humanidade. February 24, 2016. Retrieved July 22, 2018 (Portuguese).
  14. ↑ José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça. May 10, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018 (Portuguese).
  15. ^ Nomina dell'Archivista e Bibliotecario di Santa Romana Chiesa. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , June 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018 (Italian).
  16. ↑ Annuncio di Concistoro il 5 ottobre per la creazione di nuovi Cardinali. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, September 1, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 (Italian).
  17. ↑ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, October 5, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 (Italian).
  18. ^ Nomina di Membri dei Dicasteri della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, February 21, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 (Italian).
  19. ↑ a b c d e f Tolentino Mendonça, um poeta no Vaticano. September 1, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 (Portuguese).
  20. ^ Prémio Inês de Castro para Tolentino de Mendonça. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (Portuguese).
  21. ^ Prémio literário Casino da Póvoa. Retrieved October 21, 2019 (Portuguese).
  22. ↑ Trezes Obras de poesia finalistas ao Prémio Literário Casino da Póvoa. January 9, 2015, accessed October 21, 2019 (Portuguese).
  23. ↑ D. José Tolentino Mendonça recebe prémio do jornal italiano "Avvenire" e fala sobre "Rostos e estilos de vida dos Crentes". September 1, 2018, accessed January 6, 2020 (Portuguese).
  24. ^ Successo per la X edition of the “Premio Cassiodoro il Grande” al Politeama di Catanzaro. December 18, 2019, accessed February 17, 2020 (Italian).
  25. ↑ a b Jose Tolentino Mendonça, poeta, professor e cardeal. September 1, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 (Portuguese).
  26. ↑ Cardeal Jose Tolentino Mendonca recebe hoje medalha de merito da Madeira. December 23, 2019, accessed December 24, 2019 (Portuguese).
  27. ↑ Lusa: Marcelo escolhe Tolentino Mendonça para presidir às comemorações do 10 de Junho de 2020. July 24, 2019, accessed on July 25, 2019 (Portuguese).
  28. ↑ Pode ler aqui na íntegra a intervenção de José Tolentino Mendonça no Dia de Portugal. June 10, 2020, accessed June 14, 2020 (Portuguese).
  29. ^ Conversa com Tolentino Mendonça. Retrieved October 22, 2019 (Portuguese).
  30. ↑ Portugal corn. Retrieved June 29, 2019 (Portuguese).
  31. ↑ As nossas escolhas de 2019. Accessed December 21, 2019 (Portuguese).
predecessor Office successor
Jean-Louis Bruguès OP Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church
since 2018 		...
personal data
SURNAME Calaça de Mendonça, José Tolentino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calaça de Mendonça, Cardinal José Tolentino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese clergyman, Curia Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Machico , Madeira Autonomous Region , Portugal