Cláudio Hummes
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His Eminence Cláudio Hummes OFM |
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| Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy | |
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| See | São Paulo (Emeritus) |
| Appointed | 31 October 2006 |
| Term ended | 7 October 2010 |
| Predecessor | Darío Castrillón Hoyos |
| Successor | Mauro Piacenza |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana |
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| Ordination | 3 August 1958 by João Resende Costa |
| Consecration | 25 May 1975 by Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider |
| Created Cardinal | 21 February 2001 by Pope John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Auri Alfonso Hummes |
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8 August 1934 Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | Omnes Vos Fratres (Ye are all brothers) |
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Styles of Cláudio Hummes |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | São Paulo (Emeritus) |
Cláudio Hummes, OFM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈklawdʒu ˈʁum(i)s], born 8 August 1934) is a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia (2006–2010), having previously served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 1996 to 1998 and archbishop of São Paulo from 1998 to 2006. A member of the Order of Friars Minor and an outspoken proponent of social justice, he was elevated to the cardinalate in the consistory of 21 February 2001.
Auri Alfonso Hummes was born in the city of Montenegro to Pedro Adão Hummes, a German-Brazilian, and Maria Frank, a German. Taking the name Cláudio upon his profession as a Franciscan, he was ordained to the priesthood on 3 August 1958 by Archbishop João Resende Costa, SDB. He obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1963 from the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome.
From 1963 until 1968, he taught philosophy at the Franciscan seminary in Garibaldi, the major seminary of Viamão and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre. He then studied at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey in Geneva, Switzerland, from where he received an specialization in ecumenism. He was adviser for ecumenical affairs to the National Bishops' Conference of Brazil, Provincial Superior of the Franciscans of Rio Grande do Sul (1972–1975), and president of the Union of Latin American Conferences of Franciscans.
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