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Geremias Steinmetz
Geremias Steinmetz (born 26 February 1965) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Londrina since 2017. He was Bishop of Paranavaí from 2011 to 2017. Early years Geremias Steinmetz was born in Sulina, Paraná, on 26 February 1965 to Ana Maria Bieger Steinmetz and Carlos Nicolau Steinmetz, one of eleven children. He entered the São João Maria Vianey Seminary in Palmas in 1977, and then studied philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy of Palmas and theology at the Instituto Teologico Santa Catarina in Florianópolis. He spent the years 1995 to 1997 obtaining a licentiate in sacred liturgy from the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome. He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão on 9 February 1991 by Bishop Agostinho José Sartori. His pastoral assignments included parish vicar of the Senhor Bom Jesus Cathedral from 1991 to 1993; parish priest of Nossa Senhora Aparecida in Palmas from 1993 to 1995, and of Cristo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Londrina
The Archdiocese of Londrina ( la, Archidioecesis Londrinensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Paraná state, southern Brazil. Its cathedral is Catedral Metropolitana Sagrado Coração de Jesus, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the archiepiscopal see of Londrina. History * February 1, 1956: Established as Diocese of Londrina on territory split off from the Diocese of Jacarezinho * Lost territory on 1964.11.28 to establish Diocese of Apucarana, now its suffragan * October 31, 1970: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Londrina Ecclesiastical province The Metropolitan has the following Suffragan sees : * Roman Catholic Diocese of Apucarana, its daughter * Roman Catholic Diocese of Cornélio Procópio * Roman Catholic Diocese of Jacarezinho Statistics , it pastorally served 728,000 Catholics (73.4% of 992,000 total) on 6,714 km² in 76 parishes and 245 missions with 146 priests (75 diocesan, 71 religi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict has chosen to be known by the title "pope emeritus" upon his resignation. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger embarked on an academic career and established himself as a highly regarded theologian by the late 1950s. He was appointed a full professor in 1958 at the age of 31. After a long career as a professor of theology at several German universities, he was appointed Archbishop of Munich and Freising and created a cardinal by Pope Paul VI in 1977, an unusual promotion for someone with little pastoral expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Paraná (state)
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Roman Catholic Archbishops In Brazil
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 (Roman numerals, I) through AD 100 (Roman numerals, C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period, historical period. The 1st century also saw the Christianity in the 1st century, appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mário Spaki
Mário Spaki (born 14 December 1971) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Paranavaí since July 2018. Biography Mário Spaki was born on 14 December 1971 in Irati, in the Diocese of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil. He completed his studies in philosophy in Ponta Grossa. He spent a year studying spirituality at Escola Sacerdotal Vinea Mea in Florence and then studied theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1998, where he obtained a licentiate in dogmatic theology in 2001. He also trained as a journalist at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Curitiba. While still a seminarian, he began ten years of teaching at the Institute of Philosophy in Ponte Grossa. On 3 August 2003 he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Ponta Grossa. He served as parish vicar of São José in 2003 and as rector of the São José Philosophy Seminary from 2004 to 2012. From 2013 to 2018 he was executive secretary of the South Region 2 of the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sérgio Aparecido Colombo
Sérgio Aparecido Colombo (29 August 1954) is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Bishop of Bragança Paulista since 2009. He was an auxiliary bishop in São Carlos from 2002 to 2003 and Bishop of Paranavaí from 2004 to 2009. Biography Sérgio Aparecido Colombo was born on 29 August 1954 in Cajobi, State of São Paulo, Brazil. He studied philosophy in São Paulo (1974-1976) and theology at the Theological Faculty Nossa Senhora da Assunção there (1977-1980). He was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Limeira on 6 August 1980. He was pastor of Bom Jesus parish (1980-1982) in the city of Leme, pastor of the parish of São Manoel (1982-1988) also in Leme, and parish priest of "Jesus Crucificado", in the city of Iracemápolis from 1988 to 2001. From 1994 to 1996 he was spiritual director of the students of the Seminary "São João Maria Vianney". He was also Episcopal Vicar of Limeira from 1983 to 1996. From 1986 to 1990 he was the diocesan pastoral coordinato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Base Ecclesial Community
A base community is a relatively autonomous Christian religious group that operates according to a particular model of community, worship, and Bible study. The 1968 Medellín, Colombia, meeting of Latin American Council of Bishops played a major role in popularizing them under the name basic ecclesial communities (BECs; also base communities; ). These are small groups, originating in the Catholic Church in Latin America, who meet to reflect upon scripture and apply its lessons to their situation. The concept of a base ecclesial community is found in the early Church, when the Church Fathers taught the Bible to believers to contribute to their spiritual formation. The purpose of the base ecclesial community engaged in Bible study is "be ngtaught and nourished by the Word of God" and "being formed and animated by the inspirational power conveyed by Scripture". The proliferation of base communities is due in part to the documents of the Second Vatican Council which called for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Conference Of Brazil
The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Portuguese: Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil, CNBB) brings together the Catholic Bishops of Brazil, as the Code of Canon Law, "jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the faithful of their territory in order to promote greater well that the Church gives to men, especially in the forms and methods of apostolate adapted to the circumstances of time and place, according to the law "(can. 447). All diocesan bishops in Brazil 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. The headquarters moved to Brasília in 1977. Organization of CNBB The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil has the following groups: *General Assembly *Regional Councils *Permanent Council *Episcopal Commissions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy See Press Office
The Holy See Press Office ( la, Sala Stampa Sanctae Sedis; it, Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, links=http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/) publishes the official news of the activities of the Pope and of the various departments of the Roman Curia. All speeches, messages, documents, as well as the statements issued by the Director, are published in their entirety. Role The press office operates every day in Italian, although texts in other languages are also available. On Saturday 27 June 2015 Pope Francis, through an apostolic letter or ''motu proprio'' ("on his own initiative") established the Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia; the Press Office was incorporated into it, but at the same time belongs to the Secretary of State. On 21 December 2015 Pope Francis appointed Dr. Greg Burke, formerly the Communications Advisor for the Section for General Affairs of the Vatican's Secretariat of State of the Holy See (a key department in the Roman Curia), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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