Eugênio Sales
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales, also: Dom Eugênio ( born November 8, 1920 in Acari, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, † 9 July, 2012 Sumaré, São Paulo) was Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
Life
Eugênio de Araújo Sales studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic Seminário da Prainha in Fortaleza and received on 21 November 1943, the ordination. His brother Heitor de Araújo Sales also became a priest and Archbishop of Natal.
On June 1, 1954, Pope Pius XII. the only 33 -year-old Eugênio de Araújo Sales titular bishop of Thibica and auxiliary bishop in Natal. He received his episcopal consecration Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado August 15, 1954. His motto Impendam et Superimpendar comes from the second letter to the Corinthians (2 Cor 12,15 EU).
It was founded in 1964 sede plena Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia appointed. He was a Council Father of all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and was a member of the Commission for the Apostolate of the Laity ( Apostolicam Actuositatem ) and the Joint Commission, which drew up the general framework for Gaudium et Spes. At one of the leaders of the Catholic Church in Brazil sales increased to 29 October 1968, when it Pope Paul VI. Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia appointed. On April 28, 1969 Sales was added as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Gregorio VII in the College of Cardinals.
On March 13, 1971 de Araújo Sales was appointed Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.
The three -decade tenure of Cardinal Sales as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro was significantly influenced by the debate over the theology of liberation. In the ensuing discussion in sales supported in contrast to other Brazilian cardinals Paulo Evaristo Arns and as Aloisio Lorscheider always the attitude of the Holy See, at least suspected some liberation theologians a close to Marxism. Because of its commitment to the workers and peasants, he was also known as the " Red Bishop " ( bispo vermelho ).
From 1976 to 1982 he was involved in more than four thousand people who were persecuted by the military governments of South America, especially Argentina. He organized the Papal Visit of John Paul II in 1980 and 1997 in Brazil. Many years he was President of the Commission for Social Action CELAM, Council of Latin American Bishops.
Even after his retirement from the office of the Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro a few weeks before his 81st birthday took Cardinal Sales performs important religious duties. He was instrumental in the re-integration of the traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre pendant group of Catholics in the Diocese of Campos in the Roman Church. Last sales occurred during a funeral service for him led by Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in April 2005 public appearance.
Since the death of Stephen Kim Sou -hwan in 2009 sales as the last living cardinal, who had been created in the Consistory in 1969, the longest-serving cardinal priests and cardinal proto- priest was so.
Eugênio de Araújo Sales died of a heart attack in the Residência Assunção in Sumaré. Sérgio Cabral Filho, Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro imposed a three-day national mourning; Dom Eugênio was in the last decades as the most important religious leader of the state.