List of Brazilian cardinals

Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti, from Pernambuco, was the first bishop to be elevated to the title and dignity of cardinal in Latin America.

The following is a list of Brazilian cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church ordered by years of consistory which elevated them to cardinalcy.

Of the twenty-five Brazilian cardinals, six are from Santa Catarina, five from Minas Gerais, four from Rio Grande do Sul, four from São Paulo, two from Pernambuco, one from Alagoas, one from Ceará, one from Rio Grande do Norte and one from Rio de Janeiro. By region, ten are from the Southeast, ten from the South and five from the Northeast.

#	Elevated to cardinalcy	Pope	Image	Name	Order	Lifespan	Mission	Coat of Arms
1	1905	Pius X		Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti	—	1850 — 1930	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
2	1930	Pius XI		Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra	—	1882 — 1942
3	1946	Pius XII		Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta	—	1890 — 1982	Archdiocese of São Paulo Archdiocese of Aparecida
4				Jaime de Barros Câmara	—	1894 — 1971	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
5	1953			Augusto Álvaro da Silva	—	1876 — 1968	Archdiocese of Salvador
6	1965	Paul VI		Agnelo Rossi	—	1913 — 1995	Archdiocese of São Paulo
7	1969			Alfredo Vicente Scherer	—	1903 — 1996	Archdiocese of Porto Alegre
8				Eugênio de Araújo Sales	—	1920 — 2012	Archdiocese of Salvador
9	1973			Avelar Brandão Vilela	—	1912 — 1986
10				Frei Paulo Evaristo Arns	O.F.M.	1921 — 2016	Archdiocese of São Paulo
11	1976			Frei Aloísio Lorscheider		1924 — 2007	Archdiocese of Fortaleza Archdiocese of Aparecida
12	1988	John Paul II		José Freire Falcão	—	1925 — 2021	Archdiocese of Brasília
13				Frei Lucas Moreira Neves	O.P.	1925 — 2002	Archdiocese of Salvador
14	1998			Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	—	1924 — 2019	Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte
15	2001			Frei Cláudio Hummes	O.F.M.	1934 — 2022	Archdiocese of São Paulo
16				Geraldo Majella Agnelo	—	1933 — 2023	Archdiocese of Salvador
17	2003			Eusébio Oscar Scheid	S.C.J.	1932 — 2021	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
18	2007	Benedict XVI		Odilo Pedro Scherer	—	1949 —	Archdiocese of São Paulo
19	2010			Raymundo Damasceno Assis	—	1937 —	Archdiocese of Aparecida
20	2012			João Braz de Aviz	—	1947 —	Congregação para os Institutos de Vida Consagrada e Sociedades de Vida Apostólica
21	2014	Francis		Orani João Tempesta	O.Cist	1950 —	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
22	2016			Sérgio da Rocha	—	1959 —	Archdiocese of Brasília Archdiocese of Salvador
23	2022			Frei Leonardo Ulrich Steiner	O.F.M.	1950 —	Archdiocese of Manaus
24				Paulo Cezar Costa	—	1967 —	Archdiocese of Brasília
25	2024			Jaime Spengler	O.F.M.	1960 —	Archdiocese of Porto Alegre

External links

• Current brazilian cardinals (in Portuguese) Official website from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil