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... Wikipedia
Born: December 7, 1927, São José do Hortêncio, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Died: March 5, 2007 (age 79 years), Santa Maria, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil