Former Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, Maranho, Brazil, and former Caritas Internationalis President Dom Affonso Felippe Gregory was born in Estrela, Brazil on February 6, 1930, and was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26, on February 25, 1956.
Successively, Felippe Gregory served as parish priest of São Carlos, within the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, professor at the seminary of Viamão, first executive director of the Estatística Religiosa e Investigações Sociais between 1963 and 1980, member of the Equipe de Reflexão Teológico-Pastoral of the CELAM, member of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum of the Holy See, perito of the Segunda Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino–Americano in Medellín, and member of the Comissão de Desenvolvimento e População of the OEA.
Aged 49, Pope John Paul II, appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan See of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Drusiliana from Cardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales, assisted by Bishops Adriano Mandarino Hypólito OFM., and Waldyr Calheiros de Novais. He was later appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, on July 16, 1987.
Between 1991 and 1999, Dom Affonso served as President of the Cáritas Internacional, the umbrella organization for 162 National Catholic Charities, and later as president of the CERIS. He guided the Caritas Confederation as it responded to the end of the Cold War, the Genocide in Rwanda, and conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He dedicated his life to working for the poor and socially excluded.
Dom Affonso retired from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on August 3, 2005, being succeeded by Dom Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira, and died from advanced stages of leukemia, on Wednesday, August 6, 2008, aged 78, in Estrela, Rio Grande Sul, his native hometown.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the church of Santa Teresa D'Ávila, and was interred inside the Catedral de Fátima, in Imperatriz, following state and religious funerals, on Saturday, August 9.
A bridge built over the Tocantins River has since been named after him.
Successively, Felippe Gregory served as parish priest of São Carlos, within the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, professor at the seminary of Viamão, first executive director of the Estatística Religiosa e Investigações Sociais between 1963 and 1980, member of the Equipe de Reflexão Teológico-Pastoral of the CELAM, member of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum of the Holy See, perito of the Segunda Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino–Americano in Medellín, and member of the Comissão de Desenvolvimento e População of the OEA.
Aged 49, Pope John Paul II, appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan See of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Drusiliana from Cardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales, assisted by Bishops Adriano Mandarino Hypólito OFM., and Waldyr Calheiros de Novais. He was later appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, on July 16, 1987.
Between 1991 and 1999, Dom Affonso served as President of the Cáritas Internacional, the umbrella organization for 162 National Catholic Charities, and later as president of the CERIS. He guided the Caritas Confederation as it responded to the end of the Cold War, the Genocide in Rwanda, and conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He dedicated his life to working for the poor and socially excluded.
Dom Affonso retired from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on August 3, 2005, being succeeded by Dom Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira, and died from advanced stages of leukemia, on Wednesday, August 6, 2008, aged 78, in Estrela, Rio Grande Sul, his native hometown.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the church of Santa Teresa D'Ávila, and was interred inside the Catedral de Fátima, in Imperatriz, following state and religious funerals, on Saturday, August 9.
A bridge built over the Tocantins River has since been named after him.
Former Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, Maranho, Brazil, and former Caritas Internationalis President Dom Affonso Felippe Gregory was born in Estrela, Brazil on February 6, 1930, and was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26, on February 25, 1956.
Successively, Felippe Gregory served as parish priest of São Carlos, within the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, professor at the seminary of Viamão, first executive director of the Estatística Religiosa e Investigações Sociais between 1963 and 1980, member of the Equipe de Reflexão Teológico-Pastoral of the CELAM, member of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum of the Holy See, perito of the Segunda Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino–Americano in Medellín, and member of the Comissão de Desenvolvimento e População of the OEA.
Aged 49, Pope John Paul II, appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan See of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Drusiliana from Cardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales, assisted by Bishops Adriano Mandarino Hypólito OFM., and Waldyr Calheiros de Novais. He was later appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, on July 16, 1987.
Between 1991 and 1999, Dom Affonso served as President of the Cáritas Internacional, the umbrella organization for 162 National Catholic Charities, and later as president of the CERIS. He guided the Caritas Confederation as it responded to the end of the Cold War, the Genocide in Rwanda, and conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He dedicated his life to working for the poor and socially excluded.
Dom Affonso retired from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on August 3, 2005, being succeeded by Dom Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira, and died from advanced stages of leukemia, on Wednesday, August 6, 2008, aged 78, in Estrela, Rio Grande Sul, his native hometown.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the church of Santa Teresa D'Ávila, and was interred inside the Catedral de Fátima, in Imperatriz, following state and religious funerals, on Saturday, August 9.
A bridge built over the Tocantins River has since been named after him.
Successively, Felippe Gregory served as parish priest of São Carlos, within the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, professor at the seminary of Viamão, first executive director of the Estatística Religiosa e Investigações Sociais between 1963 and 1980, member of the Equipe de Reflexão Teológico-Pastoral of the CELAM, member of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum of the Holy See, perito of the Segunda Conferência Geral do Episcopado Latino–Americano in Medellín, and member of the Comissão de Desenvolvimento e População of the OEA.
Aged 49, Pope John Paul II, appointed him as Auxiliary Bishop of the Metropolitan See of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Drusiliana from Cardinal Eugênio de Araújo Sales, assisted by Bishops Adriano Mandarino Hypólito OFM., and Waldyr Calheiros de Novais. He was later appointed as Bishop of the Diocese of Imperatriz, on July 16, 1987.
Between 1991 and 1999, Dom Affonso served as President of the Cáritas Internacional, the umbrella organization for 162 National Catholic Charities, and later as president of the CERIS. He guided the Caritas Confederation as it responded to the end of the Cold War, the Genocide in Rwanda, and conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He dedicated his life to working for the poor and socially excluded.
Dom Affonso retired from the pastoral government of his see at the canonical age of 75, on August 3, 2005, being succeeded by Dom Gilberto Pastana de Oliveira, and died from advanced stages of leukemia, on Wednesday, August 6, 2008, aged 78, in Estrela, Rio Grande Sul, his native hometown.
The Bishop's body was laid out in state at the church of Santa Teresa D'Ávila, and was interred inside the Catedral de Fátima, in Imperatriz, following state and religious funerals, on Saturday, August 9.
A bridge built over the Tocantins River has since been named after him.
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