Júlio Tavares Rebimbas
Júlio Tavares Rebimbas ( born January 21, 1922 in Bunheiro, Murtosa, Portugal, † December 6, 2010 in Boavista (Porto ), Portugal ) was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop of Porto, which led to the personal title of archbishop.
Life
Júlio Tavares Rebimbas, son of a small farmer and a seamstress, attended the Colégio de Ermesinde and then the seminaries of Vilar in Porto, Olivais in Lisbon and Santa Joana, Aveiro. On 29 June 1945 he received by the Bishop of the Diocese of Aveiro, João Evangelista de Lima Vidal, the ordination. From 1945 on, he was a curate in the parish Ilhavo, 1946-1949 Pastor of Avelãs de Cima and Avelãs de Caminho in Anadia. Then he returned to Ílhavo and was there from 1949 to 1965 worked as a pastor. In this role, he campaigned for the creation of several social institutions such as the training and assistance center that the arms Foundation and the senior center. In 1952 he became a professor of religion and morality at the diocesan seminary in Aveiro. In 1958 he became judicial vicar and in 1959 he was appointed vicar general. Pope John XXIII. appointed him in 1959 to Monsignor. 1961 Tavares Rebimbas was appointed director of the Colégio Liceal João de Barros in Ílhavo.
Following his appointment on 27 September 1965 Bishop of Faro by Pope Paul VI. he participated in the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council as a Council Father. The episcopal consecration on December 26, 1965 donated it to the Bishop of Aveiro, Manuel d' Almeida Trindade, in the stadium of Ílhavo; Were co-consecrators Francisco Maria da Silva, Archbishop of Braga, and Francisco Rendeiro OP, Coadjutor Bishop of Coimbra. The Office of the Bishop of Faro, he officially took the end of January in 1966 and was thus responsible for the Algarve region.
In 1972, Pope Paul VI. Titular Archbishop of Mitylene and appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon, and coadjutor of the Patriarch of Lisbon. In the same year he was elected president of the Episcopal Commission for Christian education. On November 3, 1977, the appointment of the first bishop of the newly established Diocese of Viana do Castelo with the personal title of archbishop was. In 1981 he was elected president of the Episcopal Commission for Liturgy.
On 12 February 1982 he was finally appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of Porto. Until the appointment of his successor Armindo Lopes Coelho on October 15, 1982, he was also Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Viana do Castelo. On May 15, 1982, he was allowed to receive Pope John Paul II on his trip abroad in Porto. In addition, he was in 1982 a member of the Permanent Council of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, and in 1986 the Congregation for Bishops.
During his term of office lasting until 1997 as Bishop of Porto, he campaigned for the restoration of numerous ecclesiastical buildings of its diocese as the Seminário da Sé, the Casa Episcopal, the Torre da Marca, the Cúria Diocesana and the Tribunal eclesiástico.
Shortly before his resignation as bishop him the Medal of Honor of the City Council of Porto was awarded on 31 May 1997. Successor as Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho was again.
He died on December 6, 2010 and was buried on 7 December at the Cathedral of Porto.
Writings
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (author): Sagração Episcopal, Ílhavo 1965
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (author): O turismo no Algarve, Secretariado Diocesan Pastoral Faro 1972
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (author): Carta pastoral ao povo de Deus da Igreja do Porto, Porto Metanoia 1982
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (author): A Obra Literaria do Pe. Donaciano de Abreu Freire, Casa da Cultura Municipal Estarreja 1985, ISBN 972-95365-0-3
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (author): Alegria de viver, Grafica de Coimbra 2002, ISBN 972-603-269-5
- Júlio Tavares Rebimbas (ed.): Familia Paroquial: Boletim because freguesia de Ílhavo ( series 1960-1987 )