The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (
Portuguese: ''Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil'', CNBB) is a group of the
Catholic
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Bishops of
Brazil
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formed under the
Code of Canon Law Code of Canon Law () may refer to:
* '' Corpus Juris Canonici'' ('Body of Canon Law'), a collection of sources of canon law of the Catholic Church applicable to the Latin Church until 1918
* 1917 ''Code of Canon Law'', code of canon law for the Ca ...
.
All diocesan bishops in
Brazil
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belong to CNBB along with coadjutor bishops, auxiliary bishops and other titular Bishops who exercise in the same territory a special charge, entrusted by the Apostolic See or by the Conference of Bishops.
[Cf. can. 450]
The CNBB was founded on October 14, 1952, in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the America ...
, Brazil. The headquarters moved to
Brasília
Brasília ( ; ) is the capital city, capital of Brazil and Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino ...
in 1977.
Organization
The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil has the following groups:
*General Assembly
*Regional Councils
*Permanent Council
*Episcopal Commissions
*Presidency CNBB
*Economic and Fiscal Councils
*CONSEP
*Bound Bodies
*General Secretariat
*National Advisors
Presidents
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (16 July 1890 – 18 September 1982) 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 B ...
, 1952–1958
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Jaime de Barros Câmara
Jaime de Barros Câmara (July 3, 1894 – February 18, 1971) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 1943 to 1971, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by ...
, 1958–1964
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Agnelo Rossi
Agnelo Rossi (born Aniello Rossi; 4 May 1913 – 21 May 1995) was a Brazilian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals.
Biography
Aniello (later changed to "Agnelo") Rossi was born on 4 May 1913 in Joa ...
, 1964–1971
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Aloísio Lorscheider
Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. (8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a Brazilian Catholic cardinal during the 1970s and 1980s. He was known as an advocate of liberation theology in the 1970s and was seen by some observers as a s ...
, 1971–1979
*
Ivo Lorscheiter, 1979–1987
*
Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 1987–1995
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Lucas Moreira Neves
Lucas Moreira Neves, OP (16 September 1925 – 8 September 2002) was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops from 1998 to 2000. He previously served as Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 19 ...
OP, 1995–1998
*
Jayme Henrique Chemello
The Archdiocese of Pelotas () is a Roman Catholic archdiocese located in the city of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. Before being elevated to an archdiocese in its own right on April 13, 2011, it was part of the ecclesiastical province of Porto Ale ...
, 1998–2003
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Geraldo Majella Agnelo
Geraldo Majella Agnelo (19 October 1933 – 26 August 2023) was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1999 to 2011. He became a bishop in 1978 and served as bishop of Toledo from 1978 to 1 ...
, 2003–2007
*
Geraldo Lyrio Rocha
Geraldo Lyrio Rocha (14 March 1942 – 26 July 2023) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate. He served as bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Colatina, Colatina from 1990 to 2002, archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vitória da Conquista ...
, 2007–2011
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Raymundo Damasceno Assis, 2011–2015
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Sérgio da Rocha
Sérgio da Rocha (; born 21 October 1959) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and the Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia since 11 March 2020. He has been a bishop since 2001, first as auxiliary bis ...
, 2015–2019
*
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (born 26 April 1954) is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of São Salvador da Bahia from 1998 till 2004, when he became archbishop of Belo Horizonte. In 2010 he also became bishop fo ...
, 2019–2023
*
Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal most commonly refers to
* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
Jaime Spengler
Jaime Spengler, OFM (born 6 September 1960), is a Brazilian cardinal of the Catholic Church who has been the Archbishop of Porto Alegre since 2013. He has also served as president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil and the Latin A ...
O.F.M, 2023–present
See also
*
Catholic Church in Brazil
The Brazilian Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Brazil, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the influential National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (), composed of over 400 pr ...
References
External links
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Christian organizations established in 1952
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1952 establishments in Brazil