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'' António II Ribeiro (21 May 1928 – 24 March 1998) was a

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, and

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from 1971 until his death in 1998. Born at São Clemente de Basto,

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, son of José Ribeiro (born ca 1860) and wife Ana Gonçalves (born ca 1904), both from the same location, Ribeiro was

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of the

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Archdiocese on 5 July 1953. Fourteen years later, on 3 July 1967, he was appointed Auxiliary bishop of

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of Tigillava, and ordained on 17 September. Ribeiro graduated with a degree in Theology from the

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of Rome. His

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, defended in 1959, was on ''The Doctrine of Errors in Saint Thomas Aquinas''. Transferred from Braga to Lisbon, he was appointed chaplain of one of the branches of Catholic Action (LUC/F), and lectured at the Instituto Superior de Cultura Católica, and at the

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, of the Technical University of Lisbon. He also visited the Theological Faculties of

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and

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. Meanwhile, in 1960 he took on a weekly tv program called ''Dia do Senhor'' (''The Lord's Day''), and collaborated with several religious magazines and newspapers, beyond his own publications. On

Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, GCC, GCSE, GCIH (29 November 1888, Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal – 2 August 1977, Buraca, Amadora, Portugal) was a Portuguese cardinal who served as Patriarch of Lisbon from 1929 to 1971. He was the l ...

's retirement as Patriarch in 1971, Ribeiro was appointed his successor and, a year later, also

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of the

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. He was created Cardinal-Priest of

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, on 5 March 1973, which made him, at the age of 44, the youngest cardinal in the XXth century since Cerejeira himself, forty-four years earlier. As such, he participated in the 1978

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and

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s. In 1991, he was appointed as the papal envoy to the 5th Centennial Celebration of Evangelization, in

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, Angola. Recognised as a man of compromise (and markedly less close to the '' Estado Novo'' government than Cerejeira had been), Ribeiro was nevertheless very determined in defending the rights and privileges of the Church in his country. He died of cancer in Lisbon in 1998 at age 69 and is buried in the tomb of the patriarchs in the

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. He was the Principal Consecrator in 1978 of

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, who succeeded him as Patriarch, and in 1989 of Januário Ferreira, who succeeded him as Military vicar of Portugal in 2001.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ribeiro, Antonio 1928 births 1998 deaths People from Celorico de Basto 20th-century Portuguese cardinals Archbishops of Lisbon Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Deaths from cancer in Portugal