Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira Cleric

Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, GCC (29 November 1888, Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal – 2 August 1977, Buraca, Amadora, Portugal) was a Portuguese cardinal who served as cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon from 1929 to 1971. He was the last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope Pius XI, and his cardinalate of forty-one years was the longest since the fifty-eight-year cardinalate of Henry Benedict Mary Clement Stuart of York which lasted from 1747 to 1805. He took part in three conclaves: in 1939, 1958 and 1963. Although there were seven other cardinals elevated by Pius XI who participated in the 1963 conclave, Cerejeira was the longest-serving living cardinal from the death of Jozef-Ernest van Roey on 6 August 1961 until his own death almost exactly sixteen years later.

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Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira
Birth dateNovember 29, 1888
Birth place
Vila Nova de Famalic%C3%A3o
Nationality
Portugal
Religion
Catholic Church
Date of deathAugust 02, 1977
Place of death
Buraca

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