Humberto Sousa Medeiros

Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros (* October 6, 1915 in Arrifes, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal, † September 17, 1983 in Boston, USA) was Archbishop of Boston.

Life

Humberto Sousa Medeiros has Azores born in 1915 in the village on the island of São Miguel. 1931 the family emigrated to the USA and settled in Fall River. He studied Catholic theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC to 1946 and was ordained in the same year in Fall River priest. In 1951 he went to Rome, where he received his doctorate at the Gregorian. In 1958 he was awarded the title of " Monsignor ".

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 14 April 1966 Bishop of Brownsville. He received his episcopal consecration of Bishop of Fall River, James Louis Connolly, on 9 June of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Auxiliary Bishops James Joseph Gerrard from Fall River and Gerald Vincent McDevitt of Philadelphia

On September 8, 1970 he was appointed Paul VI. Archbishop of Boston. The inauguration was followed on 7 October of the same year. As bishop, he took care of the problems of agricultural workers and the people living on the margins of society. 1973 was taken as a cardinal priest of Santa Susanna in the College of Cardinals, and as such took part in the two conclave in 1978.