Orani João Tempesta

Styles of Orani João Tempesta
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Orani João Tempesta O. Cist. (born on 23 June 1950) is the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro. He was appointed to that office by Pope Benedict XVI on 27 February 2009,^[1] and took possession of the See on 19 April 2009.

Tempesta was born in São José do Rio Pardo, in the Diocese of São João da Boa Vista.

After completing his elementary and lower secondary-school studies in São José do Rio Pardo, he entered the Cistercian monastery of São Bernardo in the same city in 1967. He studied philosophy at the monastery of São Bento in São Paulo, and theology at the Salesian Theological Institute of Pius IX in São Paulo.

Archbishop Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro

He made his religious profession in the Order of Cistercians on 2 February 1969 and was ordained priest on 7 December 1974.

In 1984 he became Prior of his monastery, while also acting as Parish Priest of the Parish of São Roque, as Diocesan Coordinator of Communications and Pastoral Care, and as professor at the Coração de Maria institute in São João da Boa Vista. In September 1996, when the monastery of São Bernardo became an abbacy, he was elected the first abbot.

His Excellency  Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist.
Metropolitan Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Elected	27 February 2009
Enthroned	19 April 2009 (&100000000000000020000002 years, &10000000000000219000000219 days)
Predecessor	Eusébio Oscar Scheid, S.C.J.
Orders
Ordination	7 Dec 1974 (Priest) by Tomás Vaquero
Consecration	25 April 1997 (Bishop) by José de Aquino Pereira
Personal details
Born	23 June 1950 (1950-06-23) (age 61) São José do Rio Pardo, Brazil

On 26 February 1997 he was appointed Bishop of São José do Rio Preto and received episcopal ordination on 25 April of that year. In addition he was Apostolic Administrator of the territorial abbacy of Claraval from 1999 until it was united with the Diocese of Guaxupé on 11 December 2002.

On 13 October 2004 he became Archbishop of Belém do Pará, and in 2007 was a delegate to the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin American and the Caribbean.

Then on 27 February 2009 he was named Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, a post that usually leads to appointment as a cardinal. Archbishop Tempesta took possession of the See on 19 April 2009, the fourth anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI.

For this appointment Archbishop Tempesta may have to wait until his predecessor, Eusébio Scheid, approaches eighty, on reaching which age (on 8 December 2012) he loses his right to enter a conclave.

He received the pallium from Pope Benedict on 29 June 2009, the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome. [1]

Preceded by Vicente Joaquim Zico	Archbishop of Belém do Pará 13 October 2004–19 April 2009	Succeeded by Alberto Taveira Corrêa
Preceded by Eusébio Scheid	Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro 27 February 2009–incumbent	Succeeded by incumbent

References

1. ^ RINUNCIA DELL’ARCIVESCOVO METROPOLITA DI SÃO SEBASTIÃO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (BRASILE) E NOMINA DEL SUCCESSORE, Rinunce e Nomine, 27 Feb 2009

External links

• Archbishop Orani João Tempesta, catholic-hierarchy.org

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Name	Tempesta, Orani Joao
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Date of birth	23 June 1950
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