Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
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Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira,
Family
Cerejeira was the eldest of three sons and four daughters of Avelino Gonçalves Cerejeira (1857
Early life
He was educated at the seminary in Braga from a young age and became a priest in 1911. Following his ordination, he became a faculty member of the University of Coimbra, during which time he became a respected and revered intellectual and religious figure. He also met António de Oliveira Salazar and the two later became leading figures in the Centro Académico de Democracia Cristã (Academic Centre for Christian Democracy), which supported the Catholic Church's social doctrine.
Career
In 1928, Cerejeira became a bishop and was elevated to the patriarchate of Lisbon the following year, at the age of forty-one. He replaced António Mendes Belo, who had experienced two very different periods during his twenty-year cardinalate: a time of anti-church hostility in the first years of the Portuguese republic and a more church-friendly climate following the military coup of 1926. Cerejeira was appointed cardinal a month after his appointment as patriarch. At the time of his elevation, he became the youngest member of the College of Cardinals. The closest approach was made by António Ribeiro, his successor as Patriarch of Lisbon, who was made a cardinal in 1973, three months before his forty-fifth birthday.
During his extraordinarily long career as Portugal's leading Catholic churchman, Cerejeira often became associated with the authoritarian right-wing
On January 1, 1971, he lost the right to participate in a conclave, having already reached age 80.
Honours
- Grand-Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword, Portugal (May 14, 1936)[6]
- Grand-Cross of the Order of Prince Henry, Portugal (December 27, 1960)[6]
Notes and references
- Baptised in Vila Nova de Famalicãoat the Parochial Church of Santa Marinha de Lousado, 3 December 1888, being his Godfather his maternal grandfather, of whom he inherited the name.
- ^ Other sources say he died in Lisbon, Benfica, on 11 August 1977.
- Baptised in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Lousado, on 16 April 1857.
- Baptised in Fafe, (São Bartolomeu de) Vila Cova, on 1 June 1864
- ^ Fotobiografias do Século XX, Photobiography of Cardinal Cerejeira, Círculo de Leitores
- ^ a b c "CIDADÃOS NACIONAIS AGRACIADOS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas". www.ordens.presidencia.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-08-06.
Bibliography
- Lusitania Sacra. 2a serie (in Portuguese). Vol. Tomo 2: Pensamento e obra do Cardeal Cerejaira. Lisboa: CEHR-UCP. 1990. GGKEY:EZ1X9XDG420. [collection, on centenary of birth of Cerejaira]