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Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Olinda and Recife from 1964 to 1985 during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Oct 26, 2020 · Dom Hélder Câmara offered this statement at a time when injustice, violence, and repression were rampant in Brazil and many other places in Latin America. This archbishop of Olinda and Recife (1964–1985) was an outspoken advocate for poor and oppressed people of Brazil’s northeast region.
Nov 17, 2022 · São Paulo — November 17, 2022. The Vatican has advanced the sainthood cause of the late Archbishop Hélder Câmara of Olinda and Recife, who may soon be called "venerable." Archbishop Fernando...
Sep 22, 1999 · Dom Hélder Câmara, who died in Recife, Brazil, on August 27, was one of the great leaders of the 20th century. Like most bishops, he was a politician who built links to the rich and powerful. Yet he also had the rare gift of appealing to all groups, including students, revolutionaries and the press. For a while even conservatives liked Dom ...
Hélder Câmara, archbishop of Olinda and Recife in the North-East of Brazil, from 1964 to 1985, is unknown to many today, and yet he was for about fifteen years one of the most influential clerics in Latin America, and probably in the world.
Aug 28, 2020 · Dom Hélder Càmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife was one of the great prophets of the Catholic Church. Hélder Càmara was born in 1909, the eleventh of thirteen children, into a family of modest means. He soon entered the seminary and was ordained priest at on 15 August, 1931, at 22 years of age.
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Hélder Câmara (Dom Hélder; b. 7 February 1909, d. 27 August 1999), Brazilian Catholic archbishop. Born in the poor northeastern state of Ceará, C âmara was ordained as a priest at age twenty-two. As a young cleric, he joined Ação Integralista Brasileira, a movement that sympathized with fascism.
