Aloísio Lorscheider, Brazilian cardinal (died 2007)

Aloísio Lorscheider

Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal

Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. was a Brazilian Catholic cardinal during the 1970s and 1980s. He was known as an advocate of liberation theology in the 1970s and was seen by some observers as a serious candidate for the papacy in the two conclaves of 1978.