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 cardinalatePopeImageNameOrderLifespanMissionCoat of Arms1 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 PauloArchdiocese 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 FortalezaArchdiocese 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 BrasíliaArchdiocese 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
References
External links Current brazilian cardinals (in Portuguese) Official website from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil