Clóvis Frainer OFMCap (March 23, 1931 – April 4, 2017) was a

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archbishop.

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Frainer entered the

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. OFMCap) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFMObs, now OFM), the ...

and was ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Alfredo Vicente Scherer, on March 27, 1955.

Pope Paul VI Pope Paul VI (born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding John XXII ...

appointed Frainer on January 3, 1978 the first prelate of the territorial prelature of Coxim, which was established on the same date. The apostolic nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Carmine Rocco, consecrated Frainer as a bishop on April 9 of the same year; Co-consecrators were Benedito Zorzi, Bishop of Caxias do Sul, and Antônio Barbosa SDB, bishop of Campo Grande. Frainer's motto as a bishop was ''Evangelisare misit me'' ("He sent me to evangelize"). On January 5, 1985, Frainer was appointed archbishop of Archdiocese of Manaus by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

and on May 22, 1991, Frainer was appointed archbishop of Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora. On November 28, 2001, John Paul II accepted his resignation for health reasons.

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1931 births 2017 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil Roman Catholic archbishops of Juiz de Fora Roman Catholic archbishops of Manaus Roman Catholic bishops of Coxim Capuchin bishops {{Brazil-RC-archbishop-stub

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