Tomás Balduino

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Tomás Balduino (2009)

Tomás Balduino OP (* as Paulo Balduino de Sousa Décio on December 31, 1922 in Posse ; † May 2, 2014 in Goiânia ) was a Brazilian religious and bishop of Goiás . He was one of the most important social bishops in Brazil.

Life

Paulo Balduino de Sousa Décio, son of a family with eleven children, attended the Escola Apostólica Dominicana Minor Seminary in Juiz de Fora , Minas Gerais , and graduated from a Marist school in Uberaba . He joined the religious order of the Dominicans in, took the religious name of Tomás and studied philosophy in São Paulo and theology at the religious seminary in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume , France. On July 4, 1948 he was ordained a priest . From 1950 he taught philosophy in Uberaba, from 1951 he was a philosophy professor and vice dean at the religious school in Juiz de Fora. He also taught philosophy at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora .

In 1957 he became superior of his order in the territorial prelature Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia in the Brazilian jungle. He learned the languages ​​of the Kayapo , Xicrin and Bacajá Indians of the Amazon region .

Pope Paul VI appointed him on August 15, 1967 to the coadjutor prelate of Santíssima Conceição do Araguaia and titular bishop of Vicus Pacati . On November 10th of the same year he was appointed Bishop of Goiás . The Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil , Archbishop Sebastiano Baggio , donated him episcopal ordination on November 26th of the same year ; Co- consecrators were Alberto Gaudêncio Ramos , Archbishop of Belém do Pará , and Alain du Noday OP, Bishop of Porto Nacional .

On December 2, 1998, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation; he died at 91 years of complications from a pulmonary embolism.

Act

Tomás Balduino was an avowed opponent of the Brazilian military dictatorship in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. In Brazil, he became known as a staunch defender of the agricultural workers threatened by the large landowners and agricultural corporations and as an advisor to the Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT). He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Indian Missionary Council (Conselho Indigenista Missionário - CIMI), whose long-time president was Bishop Erwin Kräutler . In 2012 he was honored by President Dilma Rousseff for his commitment to the Brazilian indigenous people.

Tomás Balduino received numerous honors and awards, such as the Medal of Merit of the State of Goiás (2002) and the honorary citizenship of the city of Goiania. In 2003 he was appointed a member of the National Council for Economic and Social Development (CDES) by the Brazilian government; later also a member of the national council for education. In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from Universidade Católica de Goiás (UCG). In 2008 he was awarded the Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation's Reflections of Hope Award . In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG). He is the namesake of the Centro de Documentação Dom Tomás Balduino .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muere Tomás Balduíno, obispo de la reforma agraria en Brasil ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Biografia de dom Tomás Balduíno ( Memento of May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on the homepage of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, accessed on June 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Brazilian Social Bishop Tomas Balduino has died , Catholic International Press Agency apic / kipa, May 5, 2014
  4. ↑ NOTA DE FALECIMENTO - Dom Tomás Balduino, fundador da CPT, fez a sua páscoa , cptnacional.org, May 5, 2014 (Portuguese)

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predecessor Office successor
Abel Ribeiro Camelo Bishop of Goiás
1967–1998 		Eugène Lambert Adrian Rixen
personal data
SURNAME Balduino, Tomás
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balduino de Sousa Décio, Paulo (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian religious, Roman Catholic bishop of Goiás
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Posse
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2014
Place of death Goiânia