Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo

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Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (born April 26, 1954 in Cocos , Bahia , Brazil ) is a Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Belo Horizonte .

Life

Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo was born to João Augusto de Azevedo and his wife Maria Conceição Oliveira Azevedo. From 1960 to 1965 he attended the Grupo Escolar Sebastião Augusto de Azevedo elementary school and from 1966 to 1968 the Episcopal Gymnasium São José and in 1969 the Instituto de Educação Anísio Teixeira in Caetité . Oliveira de Azevedo entered the archiepiscopal seminary of Santo Antônio in Juiz de Fora in 1970 . From 1972 to 1973 he studied philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty Dom Bosco in Juiz de Fora and from 1974 to 1975 literary studies in São João del Rei . Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo studied Catholic theology at the Santo Antônio Seminary in Juiz de Fora from 1974 to 1977 . He received the sacrament of ordination for the Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora on September 9, 1977 .

In 1977 he was sent to Rome for further studies in Biblical Exegesis . During this time Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo lived in the Pontifical Brazilian College of Pius . In 1980 he obtained a licentiate in Biblical Exegesis from the Pontifical Biblical Institute . From 1980 to 1984 he was the coordinator of the theological course at the seminary in Juiz de Fora and diocesan coordinator for vocational pastoral care . In 1985 he was at the Pontifical Gregorian University with a managed by Fritzleo Lentzen-Deis dissertation doctorate in theology in specialist biblical criticism doctorate . From 1986 to 1987 Oliveira de Azevedo was instructor, professor of biblical exegesis and parish vicar as well as coordinator of the theological course at the seminary in Juiz de Fora. He was also a member of the Priestly Council of the Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora from 1986 to 1998 and a member of the College of Consultors of the Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora from 1989 to 1998 and pastor of the Parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Benfica from 1986 to 1995 . Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo was also the coordinator of the pastoral region Nossa Senhora de Lourdes from 1986 to 1988 . In 1989 he became a Regens of the Seminary in Juiz de Fora. From 1986 to 1990 he was professor at the Center for Higher Education and from 1991 to 1994 professor for the introduction to the Hermeneutics of the New Testament at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro . In 1995 Oliveira de Azevedo became director of the Department of Religious Studies at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora . From 1996 to 1998 he was pastor of the parish of Bom Pastor .

On 21 January 1998 appointed him Pope John Paul II. To the titular of Caliabria and auxiliary bishop in Sao Salvador da Bahia . The Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves OP , donated him the episcopal ordination on May 10, 1998 in the Cathedral of Juiz de Fora; Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Juiz de Fora, Clóvis Frainer OFMCap , and the Bishop of Luz , Eurico dos Santos Veloso . As a motto he chose a promise from the book of the prophet Isaiah ( Isa 61.1  EU ): Ut mederer contritis corde (“so that I may heal those whose hearts are broken”). The inauguration as auxiliary bishop in São Salvador da Bahia took place on May 22, 1998 in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. As auxiliary bishop, Oliveira de Azevedo was pastoral coordinator in the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and secretary of the Nordeste 3 region of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference .

Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Belo Horizonte on January 28, 2004 . The inauguration took place on March 26 of the same year. On July 28, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him . also as a full professor for the Catholic believers in the oriental rites in Brazil .

Supra-diocesan tasks

Roman Curia

Brazilian Bishops' Conference

  • 1999 to 2003 member of the Commission for the Doctrine of Faith
  • since 2003 President of the Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith
  • 2007 delegate for the 5th general conference of CELAM in Aparecida
  • President of the Leste 2 region of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference

Other organizations

  • since 1980 member of the League for Bible Studies
  • since 1989 member of the Association for Exegesis, Gospel and Culture based in Düsseldorf
  • 1992 to 1997 member of the research group of the Department of Religious Studies at the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • 5th to 26th October 2008 delegate for the XII. Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nomina di Ausiliari dell'arcidiocesi di São Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) ( Memento of July 13, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of January 21, 1998.
  2. ^ Rinuncia dell'Arcivescovo Metropolita di Belo Horizonte (Brasile) e Nomina del Successore , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of January 28, 2004.
  3. ↑ nouns dell'Ordinario per i fedeli cattolici di rito orientale residenti in Brasile e sprovvisti di Ordinario del proprio rito , in: Holy See Press Office: Daily Bulletin of 28 July of 2010.
  4. ^ Nomina di Membri della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede , in: Press Office of the Holy See: Daily Bulletin of September 22, 2009.
  5. ↑ Dom Walmor recebe título de cidadão honorário de Minas Gerais. In: JusBrasil , date unknown. Retrieved August 30, 2014 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Dom Walmor receberá título de Cidadão Honorario de Ribeirão das Neves. In: Paroquia Nossa Senhora da Neves, date unknown. Retrieved August 30, 2014 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Dom Walmor é Cidadão Honorario de Caeté. In: Arquidiocese de Belo Horizonte: Notícias of December 17, 2010. Retrieved on August 30, 2014 (Portuguese).
predecessor Office successor
Serafím Cardinal Fernandes de Araújo Archbishop of Belo Horizonte
since 2004 		---
personal data
SURNAME Azevedo, Walmor Oliveira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian clergyman, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cocos , Bahia, Brazil