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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 was a Roman Catholic prelate whose progressive views on social questions brought him into frequent conflict with Brazil’s military rulers after 1964. Câmara was an early and important figure in the movement that came to be known as liberation theology in the late 1970s.
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.
HELDER CAMARA was the Brazilian Catholic archbishop who became renowned throughout the world as the inspirer of Latin America's "liberation theology" movement.
Oct 2, 2009 · The late Brazilian Archbishop of Recife, Dom Helder Camara (1909 – 1999) was one of the great prophets of the twentieth century: living through an era of military dictatorship, he championed the poor of Brazil and the rest of the world, and influenced the Second Vatican Council, subsequent gatherings of Latin American Bishops, and even the ...
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."
Hélder Pessoa Câmara was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military regime of the country. An advocate of liberation theology, he is remembered for his social and political work for the poor and for Human Rights and democracy during the military regime.
