Aloísio Lorscheider

Aloísio Lorscheider

Brazilian Catholic cardinal (1924–2007)

Biography

Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. was a Brazilian Catholic cardinal during the 1970s and 1980s. He was known 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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