José Ivo Lorscheiter was a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was a bishop from 1965 to his retirement in 2004. He was a leading proponent of liberation theology and denounced abuses of human rights by the military regime that controlled Brazil in the anos de chumbo from 1964 to 1985.
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Country
BrazilCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2007 · aged 79
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