Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho
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Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho (4 April 1925 – 28 June 2018) was a Brazilian
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archbishop. Câmara Filho was born in
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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1948. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Fortaleza, Brazil, and titular bishop of ''AthTruim'', from 1970 to 1974. Câmara Filho then served as coadjutor of the
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, Brazil, from 1974 to 1976 and as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1976 to 1984. Finally Câmara Filho served as archbishop of the
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, Brazil from 1986 to 2001.Archdiocese of Teresina


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1925 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil Roman Catholic bishops of Fortaleza Roman Catholic archbishops of Maceió Roman Catholic archbishops of Teresina {{brazil-RC-archbishop-stub