Jaime Cardinal Spengler, O.F.M.

Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Cardinal-Priest of San Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova

Motto: In Cruce Gloriari

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Sep 1960		Born
20 Jan 1982	21.3	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor
8 Dec 1985	25.2	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor
17 Nov 1990	30.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
10 Nov 2010	50.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
10 Nov 2010	50.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Patara
5 Feb 2011	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Patara
18 Sep 2013	53.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
15 Nov 2013	53.1	Installed	Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
7 Dec 2024	64.2	Elevated to Cardinal
7 Dec 2024	64.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova
8 Feb 2025	64.4	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova

MicroData Summary
Jaime Spengler
Jaime Cardinal Spengler O.F.M.
(born 6 Sep 1960)
Archbishop of Porto Alegre

Consistory - 2024: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Gaspar
Ordained Priest Gaspar
Ordained Bishop São Pedro Apóstolo, Church, Gaspar

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gaspar
Ordained Priest	Gaspar
Ordained Bishop	São Pedro Apóstolo, Church, Gaspar

Relatives

Cousin of: Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler, O.F.M., Bishop of Roraima

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Porto Alegre.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Principal Consecrator:
- Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri
  Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Archbishop Dadeus Grings
  Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
- Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M.
  Prelate of São Félix, Mato Grosso

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri (1992)
Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
- Archbishop Leomar Antônio Brustolin (2015)
- Bishop Aparecido Donizete de Souza (2016)
- Bishop Silvio Guterres Dutra (2018)
- Bishop Darley José Kummer (2019)
- Bishop Maurício da Silva Jardim (2022)
- Bishop Juarez Albino Destro, R.C.J. (2023)
- Bishop Odair Miguel Gonsalves dos Santos, C.M. (2023)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
- Archbishop João Inácio Müller, O.F.M. (2013)
- Bishop Adilson Pedro Busin, C.S. (2016)
- Bishop Cleonir Paulo Dalbosco, O.F.M. Cap. (2018)
- Bishop Edson Batista de Mello (2019)
- Bishop Bertilo João Morsch (2022)
- Bishop Nereudo Freire Henrique (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1678758

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 10 Nov 2010
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 205, Number 16,941
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 2,011, Number 9
ab: Bollettino, 18 Sep 2013
i: CB, 25 Sep 2013
card: Bollettino, 6 Oct 2024
ab: Bollettino, 7 Dec 2024
i: AK, 26 Jan 2025
i: Bollettino, 3 Feb 2025

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