Styles of Agnelo Cardinal Rossi
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Sabina e Pogio Morteto (suburbicarian), Ostia (suburbicarian)

Agnelo Cardinal Rossi (May 4, 1913 - May 21, 1995) was an Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (550x741, 86 KB) Description: Vestments of a cardinal: red cassock, rochet trimmed with lace, red chimere, apostolical cross. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... The Dean of the College of Cardinals is the president of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church and as such is always a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of the episcopal order. ... The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Agnelo Rossi was born on May 4, 1913 in Joaquim Egidio, Brazil, in the Diocese of Campinas. In 1933 he left his Brazilian home for Rome. There he studied at the Pontifical College Pio Brasileiro and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest on March 27, 1937 in the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica by Luigi Cardinal Traglia, Vice-Regent of Rome, future Dean of the College of Cardinals. May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Government Country   State Brazil   São Paulo Geographical characteristics Area Total 797. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the Roman People) coordinates: 41°54′N 12°29′E Time Zone: UTC+1 Administration Subdivisions 19 municipi Province Rome Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni ( The Union ) Characteristics Area 1,285 km² Population 2,547,677 (2005 estimate) Density 1983/km... The Pontifical Gregorian University The Pontifical Gregorian University is a Roman Catholic university in Rome. ... Roman Catholic priests in traditional clerical clothing. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The late Baroque façade of the Basilica of St. ...

Rossi subsequently met duties in Brazil, as secretary to the bishop of Campinas for one year and as faculty member of the Central Seminary of São Paulo and the faculty of economic science of the University of Campinas. He was canon of the cathedral chapter of Campinas 1943-1956. 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1956 Rossi was appointed Bishop of Barra do Piraí within the metropolitan district of Rio de Janeiro. Paulo de Tarso Campos, bishop of his home diocese Campinas, consecreted him in the same year. Rossi was named Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto in 1962. Two years later he was transferred to the archepiscopal see of São Paulo, which he held until 1970. 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (Archidiocesis Sancti Sebastiani Fluminis Ianuarii) in Brazil was established as a territorial prelature on July 19, 1575. ... Political division map of the micro-region of Ribeirão Preto, with population ranges expressed in color Official flag with crest Ribeirão Preto is a municipality and city in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... Motto: Non ducor, duco (Latin: I am not led, I lead) Administrative division of the city Country Brazil Region Southeast State São Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab (PFL) Area    - City 1,522. ...

In the consistory of 1965 Rossi was created Cardinal Priest by Pope Paul VI, and he received the title of Gran Madre di Dio. In 1970 he was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the recently renamed Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. Afterwards Rossi was President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See from 1984 to 1989. // Antiquity Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply sitting together, just as the Greek syn(h)edrion (from which the Biblical sanhedrin was a corruption). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... The headquarters of the Propaganda fide in Rome, North facade on Piazza di Spagna by architect Bernini, the southwest facade seen here by Borromini: etching by Giuseppe Vasi, 1761 [1] The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsibile for... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1984 he also was promoted to Cardinal Bishop with the title of the suburbicarian see of Sabina e Poggio Morteto by Pope John Paul II. Only two years later he received the title of Ostia in addition, becoming Dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Bishops, or Cardinals of the Episcopal Order, are among the most important persons in the Roman Catholic Church. ... The seven suburbicarian dioceses are Roman Catholic dioceses located in the suburbs that surround Rome, reserved for he highest order of Cardinals. ... Sabina, the region in the Sabine Hills of Latium named for the Sabines, is the ancient territory that is today identified with the Province of Rieti, in Lazio (Roman Latium). ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef Wojtyła [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005) reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from... Scale model of Portus, near Ostia The Temple of the goddess Roma on the Forum of Ostia. ... The Dean of the College of Cardinals is the president of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church and as such is always a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of the episcopal order. ... The Sacred College of Cardinals is the body of all Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Rossi participated in the two conclaves of 1978 (I, II).He resigned as President in 1989 and as Dean in 1993. He subsequently returned to Brazil. Angelo Rossi died on May 21, 1995 in Indaiatuba. He was buried in Campinas. con·clave (knklv, kng-) n. ... Following the death of Paul VI on August 6, 1978, the first conclave of the year was held on August 25–26 in Vatican City. ... Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) The winner of the October 1978 conclave. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Indaiatuba is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. ...

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