- António Ribeiro
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See=Lisbon|"Dom " António Cardinal Ribeiro (May 21 ,1928 —March 24 ,1998 ) was a Portugueseprelate of theRoman Catholic Church , serving asPatriarch of Lisbon from 1971 until his death in 1998.Born in São Clemente de Basto,
Celorico de Basto , son of José Ribeiro and wife Ana Gonçalves, both from the same location, Ribeiro was ordained as a priest onJuly 5 ,1953 inBraga . He reached Auxiliary Bishop of Braga on3 July 1967 , and was appointed that same dayTitular Bishop of Tigillava , although he was only ordained Bishop on17 September .Ribeiro graduated with a degree in theology from the
Pontifical Gregorian University ofRome and lectured in the Superior Institute of Catholic Culture. His doctorate thesis, written in 1959, was "The Doctrine of Errors in Saint Thomas Aquinas". During the 1960s he continued his studies inBraga and was made member of such institutions as theSuperior Institute of Social and Political Sciences . D. António attended also the Theological Faculties ofInnsbruck andMünich .Meanwhile, in 1960 he also began to appear in television with a program called "Dia do Senhor" ("The Lord's Day"), and collaborated with several religious magazines and newspapers, beyond his own publications.
D. António succeeded
Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira when he retired as Patriarch in 1971. AppointedVicar Apostolic of the Portuguese Military in 1972, Ribeiro was elevated byPaul VI in March 1973 to Cardinal-Priest ofS. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana . When he was elevated to the cardinalate, António Ribeiro became the youngest cardinal since Cerejeira himself forty-four years earlier and he remains the youngest cardinal appointed since 1930. He attended the 1978 August and October Conclaves. In 1991, as in other occasions, D. António was the papal envoy to the 5th centennial celebration of evangelization inLuanda ,Angola .Recognized as a man of compromise, he was nevertheless very determined in defending the rights and privileges of the Church in his country.
D. António died of
cancer inLisbon in 1998 and is buried in the tomb of the patriarchs inS. Vicente de Fora . He was the Principal Consecrator of D. José Policarpo in 1978, who would succeed him as Patriarch, and ofD. Januário Ferreira in 1989, who would succeed as Military vicar of Portugal in 2001.
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