Geraldo Majella Agnelo

Geraldo Majella Agnelo Cardinal (* October 19, 1933 in Juiz de Fora, Brazil) is a retired Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia.

Life

After studying subjects Catholic theology and philosophy Geraldo Majella Agnelo received in 1957 the sacrament of Holy Orders. In a subsequent doctoral studies, with residence at the Pontifical Brazilian Pius College, he earned a doctoral degree in liturgy at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. After a short period in the municipality of pastoral care he was entrusted with various line and staff activities:

He was Director of the Department of Philosophy in Aparecida, professor and rector of the seminary priest of the Immaculate Conception in Ipiranga, professor of liturgy and sacraments Sciences at the Theological Institute Pius XI. and rector of the seminary of the Assumption.

On May 5, 1978, Pope Paul VI. Agnelo Bishop of Toledo. He received his episcopal consecration on 6 August of the same year, the then Archbishop of São Paulo, Paulo Evaristo Arns Cardinal.

From 1983 he was Archbishop of Londrina. In 1991 he was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In 1999 he received the appointment as Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia. As part of the consistory on 21 February 2001, he was received by Pope John Paul II as a Cardinal with the priestly title church of San Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova in the College of Cardinals. On 12 January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. Geraldo Majella Agnelo of the argument put forward on grounds of age resignation from the office of the Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia. Following the resignation of Benedict XVI. He participated in the conclave of 2013.