Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (born 26 April 1954) is a
prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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. He served as
auxiliary bishop of
São Salvador da Bahia from 1998 till 2004, when he became archbishop of
Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
. In 2010 he also became bishop for the Brazilian
ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite
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. In May 2019, he became head of the
Brazilian Bishops conference.
Biography
Born in
Cocos, Oliveira de Azevedo was
ordained
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to the
priesthood on 9 September 1977, serving in
Juiz de Fora
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.
On 21 January 1998, he was appointed
auxiliary bishop of
São Salvador da Bahia and
titular bishop
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of ''
Caliabria''. Oliveira de Azevedo received his
episcopal consecration
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on the following 10 May from
Lucas Cardinal Moreira Neves, archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, with the archbishop of
Juiz de Fora
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,
Clóvis Frainer, and the bishop of
Luz
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,
Eurico dos Santos Veloso, serving as
co-consecrators
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.
On 28 January 2004, he was appointed
Archbishop of Belo Horizonte.
He was installed on the following 26 March.
Pope Benedict XVI
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named him a member of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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on 22 September 2009. On 28 July 2010 he also became bishop for the Brazilian
ordinariate for the faithful of eastern rite
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.
Pope Francis
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named him a member of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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on 19 February 2014.
On 6 May 2019 he was elected president of the
Episcopal Conference of Brazil
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.
He has held these positions in the Conference:
*1999-2003 Member of the commission for the Doctrine of the Faith
*Since 2003 Chairman of the commission for the Doctrine of the Faith
*2007 Representative for the fifth general conference of the
Latin American Episcopal Conference
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in
Aparecida
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*Chairman of region ''Leste 2'' of the
Brazilian Bishops conference
*Since 2019 Chairman of the
Brazilian Bishops conference
Principal consecrator
He was principal consecrator of the following bishops:
*
Aloísio Jorge Pena Vitral
*
Joaquim Giovanni Mol Guimarães
*
Luis Gonzaga Féchio
*
Wilson Luís Angotti Filho
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*
João Justino de Medeiros Silva
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Kings
* J ...
He was principal co-consecrator of the following bishops:
*
Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodrigues
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Association football
* Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator
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*
José Francisco Rezende Dias
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*
Dominique Marie Jean Denis You
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*
João Carlos Petrini
*
Josafá Menezes da Silva
Honors
*14 May 2009 honorary citizen of the state of
Minas Gerais
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*7 March 2010 honorary citizen of the city of
Ribeirão das Neves
*21 March 2010 honorary diploma of the city of
Belo Horizonte
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*16 December 2010 honorary citizen of the city of
Caeté
Dom Walmor é cidadão honorário de Caeté
', in: Arquidiocese de Belo Horizonte: ''Notícias'', 17 December 2010.
References
External links
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1954 births
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Brazil
21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil
Living people
People from Bahia
Roman Catholic bishops of São Salvador da Bahia