António Ribeiro

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His Eminence

Antonio II
Paul VI
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born(1928-05-21)21 May 1928
Gandarela de Basto, Portugal
Died24 March 1998(1998-03-24) (aged 69)
Lisbon, Portugal
BuriedMonastery of São Vicente de Fora
NationalityPortuguese
Coat of armsAntonio II's coat of arms

Styles of
António Ribeiro
Reference style
His Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeLisbon

Dom António II Ribeiro (21 May 1928 – 24 March 1998) was a Portuguese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and Patriarch of Lisbon from 1971 until his death in 1998.[1]

Born at São Clemente de Basto,

Tigillava
, and ordained on 17 September.

Ribeiro graduated with a degree in Theology from the

doctoral thesis, defended in 1959, was on The Doctrine of Errors in Saint Thomas Aquinas. Transferred from Braga to Lisbon, he was appointed chaplain of one of the branches of Catholic Action (LUC/F), and lectured at the Instituto Superior de Cultura Católica, and at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, of the Technical University of Lisbon. He also visited the Theological Faculties of Innsbruck and Munich
.

Meanwhile, in 1960 he took on a weekly tv program called Dia do Senhor (The Lord's Day), and collaborated with several religious magazines and newspapers, beyond his own publications.

On

October Conclaves. In 1991, he was appointed as the papal envoy to the 5th Centennial Celebration of Evangelization, in Luanda
, Angola.

Recognised as a man of compromise (and markedly less close to the Estado Novo government than Cerejeira had been), Ribeiro was nevertheless very determined in defending the rights and privileges of the Church in his country.

He died of cancer in Lisbon in 1998 at age 69 and is buried in the tomb of the patriarchs in the

José da Cruz Policarpo, who succeeded him as Patriarch, and in 1989 of Januário Ferreira
, who succeeded him as Military vicar of Portugal in 2001.

References

  1. ^ Miranda, Salvador. "António Ribeiro". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
  2. ^ Cardinal Title S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana GCatholic.org
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Patriarch of Lisbon
1971–1998 		Succeeded by
José da Cruz Policarpo
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