Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta
Organization founder
1890 – 1982
Who was Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta?
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta was a long-serving cardinal. Until Eugênio de Araújo Sales surpassed him in 2005, he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal, and during his cardinalate the Church in Brazil underwent tremendous expansion, involving the development of many new movements that were to develop after he had largely disappeared from the scene.
Originally from a small village in the state of Minas Gerais, the future Cardinal gained his education in the local seminary in the city of Mariana. He was ordained in 1918, and spent much of the next fifteen years in the state capital of Belo Horizonte as a seminary rector. He became a bishop in 1932, but only of a titular see. His first proper appointment as a diocesan bishop was to the Archdiocese of São Luis in the remote state of Maranhão three years later, but Motta attracted no wider attention until he was promoted to Brazil's most prestigious see in São Paulo in 1944.
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- Born
- Jul 16, 1890
Bom Jesus do Amparo - Also known as
- Вашконшелош Мотта, Карлуш Кармелу де
- Died
- Sep 18, 1982
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on July 23, 2013
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