Jaime de Barros Câmara

His Eminence Jaime de Barros Câmara
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
The then-archbishop pictured in 1943.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
See	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Appointed	3 July 1943
Installed	15 September 1943
Term ended	18 February 1971
Predecessor	Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra
Successor	Eugênio de Araújo Sales
Other post(s)	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio (1946-71) Ordinary of Brazil of the Eastern Rite (1951-71)
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Mossoró (1935-41) Archbishop of Belém do Pará (1941-43) Military Vicar of Brazil (1950-63) President of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference (1958-64)
Orders
Ordination	1 January 1920 by Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira
Consecration	2 February 1936 by Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira
Created cardinal	18 February 1946 by Pope Pius XII
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	Jaime de Barros Câmara 3 July 1894 São José, Brazil
Died	18 February 1971(1971-02-18) (aged 76) Palácio Paulino, Aparecida, Brazil
Buried	Rio de Janeiro Cathedral
Parents	Joaquim Xavier de Oliveira Cãmara Anna de Carvalho Barros
Motto	Ignem veni mittere
Coat of arms

Styles of Jaime de Barros Câmara
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Jaime de Barros Câmara (July 3, 1894 – February 18, 1971) was a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro from 1943 to 1971, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Born in São José, Jaime de Barros Câmara studied at the seminary in São Leopoldo before being ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Joaquim Domingues de Oliveira on January 1, 1920. After doing pastoral work in Florianópolis until 1935, he was made rector of the seminary in that same city. Câmara was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on April 18, 1935.

On December 19, 1935, Câmara was appointed the first Bishop of Mossoró by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on February 2, 1936, from Archbishop Domingues de Oliveira, with Bishops Pio de Freitas Silveira and Daniel Hostin serving as co-consecrators. Câmara was later named Archbishop of Belém do Pará on September 15, 1941, and Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro on July 3, 1943.

Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio in the consistory of February 18, 1946. Câmara was made the first Bishop of the Catholic Military Ordinariate of Brazil on November 6, 1950 (a post which he resigned on November 9, 1963), and the first Ordinary for the Eastern Catholics in Brazil on November 14, 1951. The Cardinal attended the first general conference of the Latin American Episcopal Conference in 1955, served as President of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference from 1958 to 1963, and participated in the conclave of 1958. From 1962 to 1965, he attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he served as a cardinal elector in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI. Along with Lawrence Shehan, he assisted Leo Joseph Suenens in delivering one of the closing messages of the Council delivered by cardinals on December 8, 1965.^[1]

During his tenure as Rio de Janeiro's archbishop, Câmara delivered a televised condemnation of Communism.^[2] He was also opposed to gambling and the popular Brazilian religious leader, Alziro Zarur.^[3][4]

In 1971, Cardinal Câmara died while in the city of Aparecida, at age 76. He is buried in metropolitan cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.

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