Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (born 1915)

Humberto Sousa Medeiros

Catholic cardinal (1915–1983)

Humberto Sousa Medeiros was a Portuguese-American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973. An ecclesiastical conservative, Cardinal Medeiros was considered a champion of the…