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Aloísio Lorscheider
1924Oct, 8

Aloísio Lorscheider

Aloísio Lorscheider, Brazilian cardinal (d. 2007)
Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. (8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a prominent cardinal of the Catholic Church in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s. He was renowned as an advocate of liberation theology in the 1970s and was seen by some observers as a serious candidate for the papacy in the two conclaves of 1978.

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