Cláudio Hummes
Cláudio Cardinal Hummes OFM ( born August 8, 1934 in Montenegro, Brazil) is a retired cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Origin
Claudio Humes was born on August 8, 1934 in Montenegro ( Brazil) as one of twelve children of the farmer Pedro Adão Hummes and his wife Maria Frank Hummes and grew up in the embossed by German immigrants community Salvador do Sul in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Hummes is a descendant of that coming from book in the Hunsrück German Johann Josef Hummes, who with his family emigrated to Brazil in 1857 and settled there as a colonist.
Training
Claudio Humes spent his school years in the Jesuit College " Colégio Santo Inácio " of Salvador do Sul and then entered the Franciscan Order. He studied first in Brazil and later in the Antonianum in Rome and the Ecumenical Institute of the University of Geneva Catholic theology and philosophy. He earned a doctoral degree in philosophy and was ordained a priest in 1958.
Career as a clergyman
First Hummes taught philosophy at the seminary of the Franciscans in Garibaldi, then at the Department of Viamão and at the Pontifical University of Porto Alegre. For many years he was an advisor to the Brazilian Bishops' Conference ( CNBB ) for questions of ecumenism. In addition, he repeatedly took true leadership roles in the Franciscan Order.
On March 22, 1975 Pope Paul VI appointed him. whose fortunes Hummes led to the Titular Bishop of Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese Carcabia and Santo André from late 1975 to 1996 as a bishop. He was later appointed Archbishop of São Paulo Archbishop of Fortaleza and two 1996. Pope John Paul II took him on 21 February 2001 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana in the College of Cardinals to.
In 2000 Hummes helped to remove the Franciscans and liberation theologians Paulo Suess from his chair in São Paulo. As a sign of pluralism in the Church Hummes saw in January 2002, the canonical reconciliation of the Lefebvre - trailer Licínio Rangel and his appointment as Apostolic Administrator of Rome directly subordinate staff to head the diocese and founded by Rangel Brotherhood of Saint John Mary Vianney.
Hummes was until the election of Benedict XVI. 2005 in public as papabile.
Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Claudio Humes on 31 October 2006 to the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy. In the same year Hummes surprised with a statement to celibacy, in which he confirmed that the celibacy of priests is not a dogma, but merely a disciplinary norm.
On 7 October 2010 Benedict XVI accepted. be pre- attached for reasons of age resignation to.
Cardinal Hummes participated in the conclave of 2013, was elected to the Pope Francis. According to his testimony, it was Hummes who has inspired him to choose his name Pope when he reminded him not to forget the poor.
Memberships in congregations and councils of the Curia
- Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
- Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Congregation for Bishops
- Congregation for Catholic Education
- Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- Pontifical Council for the Laity
- Pontifical Council for the Family
- Pontifical Council "Cor Unum "
- Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
- Pontifical Council for Culture
- Pontifical Commission for Latin America