Manuel Vieira Pinto

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Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto (born December 8, 1923 in São Pedro de Aboim ; † April 30, 2020 in Porto ) was a Portuguese clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nampula in Mozambique .

Life

Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto studied theology at the diocesan seminary in Porto and received on August 7, 1949 in the Cathedral of Porto by Agostinho de Jesus e Sousa , Bishop of Oporto, the ordination . He was active in pastoral care and was involved in Catholic Action . In 1955 he became a spiritual director in the diocesan seminary. In 1958 he had to go into exile in Rome due to the political situation in Portugal. As an assistant to the council theologian Vítor Feytor Pinto, he was a participant in the last sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

Pope Paul VI appointed him on April 21, 1967 Bishop of Nampula. The apostolic nuncio in Portugal, Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg , consecrated him bishop on June 29 of the same year; Co-consecrators were Florentino de Andrade e Silva , auxiliary bishop in Porto , and Manuel Marilla Ferreira da Silva , auxiliary bishop in Goa and Daman . Manuel Vieira Pinto was significantly involved in the reorganization of the Catholic Church in Mozambique. In 1975 he was elected President of the Bishops' Conference of Mozambique (CEM).

On June 4, 1984, he was appointed Archbishop by Pope John Paul II and on December 12, 1992, he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Pemba . He resigned from this office on January 18, 1998. On November 16, 2000, John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation.

Act

Vieira Pinto publicly criticized the political and anti-human conditions in Mozambique during the time of Portuguese colonial rule. For this, the authorities expelled him from the country in the 1960s. He was one of the few domestic critics in his circle who opposed the repression of the PIDE . During his presidency of the Bishops' Conference of Mozambique (CEM), he actively campaigned for an end to the war between Frelimo and Renamo , the atrocities of which were publicly denounced.

Because of his anti-fascist stance towards the Estado Novo , the authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal, he was invited to the State Council in the first days after the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, by General António de Spínola , President of the Junta de Salvação Nacional , a transitional government which he refused. He was previously arrested by the secret state police Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE) and forced into exile by the Salazar government, head of the authoritarian dictatorship of the so-called Estado Novo, in 1958 after the presidential elections for which General Humberto Delgado was running . In Rome he dealt with the movement for a better world (Movimento per un mondo migliore) of the Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi SJ. It was Manuel Vieira Pinto who made this spiritual community known in Portugal.

Manuel Vieira Pinto was considered a persona non grata for the Portuguese fascist regime , for example because he campaigned against the colonial war .

In 1992 he was awarded the Ordem da Liberdade (Order of Freedom, Grand Cross) by the then President of the Portuguese Republic, Mário Soares , for his work in defense of the values ​​of civilization in favor of human dignity and for the cause of Freedom excellent. In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Grand Cross).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Manuel Vieira Pinto, Archbishop Emeritus of Nampula, passed away" on time24.news of April 30, 2020 (en.)
  2. ↑ Joseph Hanlon: Mozambique. Revolution in the crossfire . edition southern Africa 21, Bonn, 1986, p. 53 ISBN 3-921614-25-2
  3. ↑ a b c d "Morreu D. Manuel Vieira Pinto, arcebispo emérito de Nampula" , Rádio Renascença of April 30, 2020 (pt.)
  4. ↑ D. Manuel Vieira Pinto , Caverna de Zaratustra, accessed on May 1, 2020 (pt.)
predecessor Office successor
Manuel de Medeiros Guerreiro Bishop of Nampula
1967–1984 		---
--- Archbishop of Nampula
1984-2000 		Tomé Makhweliha SCI
personal data
SURNAME Vieira Pinto, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vieira Pinto, Manuel da Silva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nampula
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Sao Pedro de Aboim
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2020
Place of death postage