Teodoro de Faria

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Teodoro de Faria (born August 24, 1930 in Boliqueime , Madeira ) is a Roman Catholic bishop. From 1982 to 2007 he was Bishop of Funchal .

He was ordained a priest on September 22nd, 1956 in the diocese of Funchal. After pastoral work, he was appointed Bishop of Funchal on March 10, 1982 and ordained by Maximilien de Fürstenberg on May 16, 1982 . Faria's episcopate was marked by sexual abuse and one murder case.

In the 1990s he came under fire for publicly protecting the Engelwerk priest Frederico Cunha ORC , who was convicted of murder and sexual abuse in his diocese in 1994. On this occasion he verbally attacked the Jews . The bishop was sentenced in 1994 for pressuring the judiciary. Cunha escaped from prison in 1998 and remained in the Funchal diocese's staff until at least February 2016 . It was not until ten years after the murder that Faria admitted that he was aware of Cunha's pedophile practices.

He was accused of pedo-criminal acts in 2005 and 2007 and was only transferred to new parishes by Faria, but like Cunha, diocesan priest Anastácio Alves, whose case was never resolved, disappeared without a trace in 2018.

In 2006 Faria asked Pope Benedict XVI. for reasons of age to his release, which took place on March 8, 2007. On June 6, 2008, Faria was raised to Grand Commander of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique , founded in 1960 by the last dictator of Portugal , Américo Tomás .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Axtmann: Engelwerk: Murder on Madeira. In: Kirche intern , May 1995, p. 41 f.
  2. ↑ Manuel Catarino: Os pecados mortais do Padre Frederico ( Memento of December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), in Correio da Manhã
  3. ↑ Ricardo Soares: Terceiro Escándalo sexual na Igreja da Madeira . ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. Tribuna da Madeira of April 9, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tribunadamadeira.pt
  4. ^ Roberto Ferreira: Um caminho sem retorno. Diário de Notícias , September 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Rosário Martins: O escândalo que abalou a Igreja na Madeira. Funchal Notícias , May 25, 2015
  6. ↑ Roberto Ferreira: O silêncio ensurdecedor da Igreja do Funchal. Diário de Notícias , March 13, 2016
  7. ↑ Miguel Silva: Padre Frederico: “Não penso regressar, mas podia voltar e rezar missa”. Diário de Notícias of February 13, 2016
  8. ^ Carlos Diogo Santos: A nova vida do padre Frederico. Revista Sol from July 24, 2015
  9. ↑ Bispo do Funchal reconhece práticas pedófilas , Paróquias de Portugal, April 11, 2002. Accessed February 25, 2014
  10. ↑ João Francisco Gomes, Sónia Simões: Padre suspeito de abusos sexuais continua desaparecido. Bispo do Funchal not o consegue interrogar. Observador on March 25, 2019
  11. ↑ Emanuel Silva: D. Teodoro de Faria foi ordenado padre há 60 anos. Funchal Notícias of September 22nd, 2016

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SURNAME Faria, Teodoro de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese clergyman, Roman Catholic Bishop of Funchal
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Boliqueime , Madeira