Aloísio Lorscheider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aloísio Lorscheider

Catholic cardinal

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1924

Place of Birth: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Date of Death: 23-Dec-2007

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M.
(8 October 1924 – 23 December 2007) was a prominent cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s.
He was renowned 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.