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- Hélder Pessoa Câmara [a] 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. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. A self-identified socialist, Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology.
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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.
Hélder Pessoa Câmara (born Feb. 7, 1909, Fortaleza, Braz.—died Aug. 27, 1999, Olinda) was a Roman Catholic prelate whose progressive views on social questions brought him into frequent conflict with Brazil’s military rulers after 1964.
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HELDER CAMARA was the Brazilian Catholic archbishop who became renowned throughout the world as the inspirer of Latin America's "liberation theology" movement.
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 · 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 Saburido of Olinda and Recife...
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 Pessoa Câmara was born in Fortaleza, in the North-East of Brazil, on February 9th, 1909. The eleventh of twelve siblings, he died on August 27th, 1999, in Recife, where he had been a bishop for more than 20 years. He is well known as one of the most outstanding Catholic figures of the 20th Century.
