Agnelo Rossi

Cardinal Agnelo Rossi ( born May 4, 1913 in Joaquim Egidio, Brazil, † 21 May 1995 Campinas ) was Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto and São Paulo, and later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Agnelo Rossi studied in Campinas, São Paulo and Rome, the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology. In Rome he was a seminarian at the Pontifical Brazilian Pius College. He received on 27 March 1937 in Rome, the sacrament of Holy Orders. He then worked for a year as a private secretary for the Bishop of Campinas, before he took up a position as lecturer at the Seminary of São Paulo. In the years 1943 to 1956 he was Vice- Rector of the Faculty of Economics in Campinas, vice-rector of the university, a newspaper editor and canons of the local cathedral. 1956 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Bishop of Barra do Parai 1962 he transferred Pope John XXIII. the management of the Archdiocese of Ribeirão Preto. In the years 1962-1965 Agnelo Rossi took part in the Second Vatican Council. From 1963 to 1970 he served as President of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference.

In 1964, Pope Paul VI appointed him. Archbishop of São Paulo, a year later he took him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Gran Madre di Dio on the College of Cardinals. In 1970 he appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Pope John Paul II confirmed Agnelo Rossi as prefects and entrusted him with numerous administrative tasks as well as representative. In 1984, Agnelo Rossi down the office of the Cardinal Prefect and was President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which he chaired until 1989. From 1986 to 1993 Agnelo Rossi was Cardinal Dean. In 1993 he returned to his native Brazil, where he died on 21 May 1995. Was buried in the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which he had helped to build.