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In a note sent to the editors, the diocese of Bragança-Miranda reports that the body is in the family sanctuary, at the Betânia Foundation in Bragança, until 19:00, and then at the cathedral, where
The funeral Mass will be held Monday at 16:00 and will be buried in the bishop's courtyard of Braganza Cathedral.
Antonio Rafael resigned for having reached the age limit and witnessed in António Montes Moreira, meanwhile already replaced by the youngest bishop of Portugal, José Cordeiro, the current diocesan bishop .
The insistence for 22 years on the construction of a new cathedral
He was known as "the controversial bishop" for his interventions in the life of the diocese and the country, which went far beyond what the Church was doing.
the episcopate asked to create incentives for large families to fight against desertification that devastates the Transmontano Northeast.
"Make children," he appealed to diocesans in the same way that he opposed the legalization of abortion and the Nazi holocaust.
He argued that the wages of the richest should be frozen until the whole country receives at least the national minimum wage.
His disagreement with the government of Mário Soares, as prime minister, went so far as to ask Portuguese emigrants not to send their savings to Portugal, as the money would fall "in a broken bag ".
Against the political proposal voted "no" referendum regionalist.
With the same frontality, he applauded the decriminalization of drug use, considering that
He was also criticized for his "authoritarianism and his reactions", and he was criticized for his "authoritarianism and his reactions ". sudden events ", including those in which he expelled journalists from the episcopal palace in controversial situations such as the manifestation of the popular Vilares da Vilariça against the local priest
Faced with the opposition of the inhabitants of Miranda da Douro to the "relegation" of Miranda, building the "mother church" in Braganza and placing the second cradle of the diocese in the new name – "Diocese of Bragança-Miranda."
D. Antonio Rafael joined the priesthood at the age of 22. He was ordained bishop in 1977, the same year he was appointed auxiliary bishop of D. Manuel de Jesus Pereira, then bishop of the diocese
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