# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joao-braz-de-aviz
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:51:26.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joao-braz-de-aviz"
name: "João Braz de Aviz"
slug: "joao-braz-de-aviz"
description: "João Braz de Aviz is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from 2011 to 2025. He began his career working for twenty years as a parish priest and seminary teacher. He became a bishop in 1994 and was bishop of Ponta Grossa from 1998 to 2002, archbishop of Maringá from 2002 to 2004, and archbishop of Brasília from 2004 to 2011."
tagline: "Catholic cardinal"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joao_braz_de_aviz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-04-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.638484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump