List of Brazilian cardinals

The following is a list of Brazilian cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church ordered by years of consistory which elevated them to cardinalcy.^[1]

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 cardinalate	Pope	Image	Name	Order	Lifespan
1	1905	Pius X	Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti	—N/a	1850 — 1930	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
2	1930	Pius XI	Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra	—N/a	1882 — 1942	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
3	1946	Pius XII	Carlos Carmelo de Vasconcelos Motta	—N/a	1890 — 1982	Archdiocese of São Paulo Archdiocese of Aparecida
4	1946		Jaime de Barros Câmara	—N/a	1894 — 1971	Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro
5	1953		Augusto Álvaro da Silva	—N/a	1876 — 1968	Archdiocese of Salvador
6	1965	Paul VI	Agnelo Rossi	—N/a	1913 — 1995	Archdiocese of São Paulo
7	1969		Alfredo Vicente Scherer	—N/a	1903 — 1996	Archdiocese of Porto Alegre
8	1969		Eugênio de Araújo Sales	—N/a	1920 — 2012	Archdiocese of Salvador
9	1973		Avelar Brandão Vilela	—N/a	1912 — 1986	Archdiocese of Salvador
10	1973		Frei Paulo Evaristo Arns	O.F.M.	1921 — 2016	Archdiocese of São Paulo
11	1976		Frei Aloísio Lorscheider	O.F.M.	1924 — 2007	Archdiocese of Fortaleza Archdiocese of Aparecida
12	1988	John Paul II	José Freire Falcão	—N/a	1925 — 2021	Archdiocese of Brasília
13	1988		Frei Lucas Moreira Neves	O.P.	1925 — 2002	Archdiocese of Salvador
14	1998		Serafim Fernandes de Araújo	—N/a	1924 — 2019	Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte
15	2001		Frei Cláudio Hummes	O.F.M.	1934 — 2022	Archdiocese of São Paulo
16	2001		Geraldo Majella Agnelo	—N/a	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	—N/a	1949 —	Archdiocese of São Paulo
19	2010		Raymundo Damasceno Assis	—N/a	1937 —	Archdiocese of Aparecida
20	2012		João Braz de Aviz	—N/a	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	—N/a	1959 —	Archdiocese of Brasília Archdiocese of Salvador
23	2022		Frei Leonardo Ulrich Steiner	O.F.M.	1950 —	Archdiocese of Manaus
24	2022		Paulo Cezar Costa	—N/a	1967 —	Archdiocese of Brasília
25	2024		Jaime Spengler	O.F.M.	1960 —	Archdiocese of Porto Alegre

References

1."Data on GCatholic". Retrieved 18 February 2025.