Jaime de Barros CÁMARA

Background

CÁMARA, Jaime de Barros was born on July 3, 1894 in Sâo José, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Education

Educated Seminário de Sâo Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul.

Career

Assistant, parish of Tijucas. Chaplain, Hospital de Caridade, Florianópolis. Vicar, cathedral of Florianópolis.

Canon in 1929; president, Seminário de Azambuya. First bishop of Mossoró, 1936. Archbishop of Belem, Pará, 1941.

Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, since 1943. Created cardinal in 1946.

Connections

Father:

Joaquim Xavier de Oliveira Cámara

Mother:

Ana de Barros