Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta
Carlos Carmelo Cardinal de Vasconcelos Motta ( * July 16, 1890 in Bom Jesus do Amparo, † September 18, 1982 in Aparecida ) was Archbishop of Aparecida and participants of the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council.
Life
Youth and Early Years of Priesthood
The son of João de Vasconcelos Teixeira da Motta and Francisca Josina dos Santos Motta received a basic education at the Fazenda da Prata in the parish Taquaraçu. He studied humanities at the Colégio Matosinhos the Marist Brothers in Congonhas do Campo. In 1904 he entered the minor seminary in Mariana, that he left after a short time. Between 1910 and 1911 he attended the law school in Belo Horizonte. In 1914 he enrolled in the major seminary.
The Archbishop of Mariana, Silvério Gomes Pimenta, ordained him a priest on 29 June 1918 and was incardinated in the clergy of the Archdiocese of Mariana. His first Mass he celebrated in Taquaruçu on July 7, 1918. After ordination, he was appointed assistant priest in Taquaruçu, where he remained for six months. After he was appointed chaplain in Asilo São Luís in Serra da Piedade. Then he was chaplain to the convent of Macaúbas and worked in parishes in Caeté and Sabara. In 1932 he became rector of the seminary in Belo Horizonte.
Bishop and cardinal
Pius XI. appointed him on 29 July 1932, Auxiliary Bishop of Diamantina and Titular Bishop of Algiza. The Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Antônio dos Santos Cabral, donated to him on 30 October of the same year in the Igreja Matriz de São José in Belo Horizonte episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Ranulfo da Silva Farias, Bishop of Guaxupé, and Antônio Colturato OFM Cap, bishop of Uberaba. As a motto he chose In Sinu Jesus.
De Vasconcelos Motta was appointed on December 9, 1935, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão. On 13 August 1944 he was appointed Archbishop of São Paulo and enthroned on 7 September of the same year. Pope Pius XII. created him on February 18, 1946 cardinal priest with the titular church of San Pancrazio. On April 19, 1958, he was by Pius XII. appointed Apostolic Administrator of Aparecida, its first archbishop, he was on 18 April 1964; this office he retained until his death. In 1979 he was serving as the senior Cardinal Priest Cardinal Proto priest, also an office he held until the end of life in 1982.
Activities and services
He was from 1933 to 1934 Diocesan Administrator of Diamantina. In Maranhão, he created the University of the Marist Brothers in São Luís, orphanages, hospitals and a leper colony and offered various religious communities place. He also promoted the creation of the dioceses Sul and Pinheiro, where he served as Apostolic Administrator of the latter between 1940 and 1944.
The Faculdade Paulista de Direito, the core of the Catholic University, he opened on 18 March 1946 and appointed Gastão Liberal Pinto to their former, president, who was introduced on September 2, 1946 to office. The Pope granted her the title of a 1947 Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, located in an old convent of the Carmelites in the district Perdizes.
He promoted the Movimento familiar Cristão and Catholic Action, which gained great momentum in the 1950s in São Paulo. On October 14, 1952, he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference. He worked very hard to promote the construction of the new cathedral Catedral da Sé, the - was opened on January 25, 1954 during the 400 - year celebration of São Paulo - even without the towers. The cathedral was completed on January 6, 1959 with the blessing of the carillon by him.
On 2 March 1956 he founded Rádio Nove de Julho to the celebration of the 80th birthday of Pius XII. In an effort to increase the number of priests, he promoted 4 to 9 November 1957 Segundo Congresso Nacional da Vocações Sacerdotais. He tried to implement the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the Archdiocese.
Trivia
- His father, João de Vasconcelos Teixeira da Motta was a deputy in the imperial period.
- Cardinal Motta was the person who chose the name for the new federal capital, Brasília. On 3 May 1957, he celebrated the first Mass in Brasília.
- As archbishop of São Paulo, he created in 20 years, more than 100 communities.
- In Aparecida, he ran great effort to build the new National Shrine of the patron saint of Brazil, Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida finish.
- He participated in two conclaves, the John XXIII. or Paul VI. selected, in part.
- When he died at the age of 92 years, he was the oldest cardinal of the world.