What is José Freire Falcão?
[[File:José Freire Falcão.jpg|right|200px]] '''José Freire Falcão''' ({{IPA-pt|ʒoˈzɛ ˈfɾej.ɾi fawˈkɐ̃w|br}}; 23 October 1925 &ndash; 26 September 2021) was a [[Brazilian people|Brazilian]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]]. He was the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brasília|Archbishop]] of [[Brasília]].<ref>{{cite web | access-date= 30 October 2017 | title= Falcão Card. José Freire | publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | url= https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_falcao-freire_j.html | url-status= live | archive-date= 4 September 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170904063513/http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_falcao-freire_j.html | df= dmy-all }}</ref> He was also the [[San Luca a Via Prenestina|Cardinal-Priest of San Luca a Via Prenestina]] when he was made a cardinal in 1988. He was born in [[Ererê]], [[Brazil]]. Freire Falcão died on 26 September 2021 at a hospital in [[Brasilia]], Brazil from [[COVID-19]], aged 95.<ref>{{Cite web|date=27 September 2021|title=Cardeal dom José Freire Falcão morre após complicações da Covid-19|url=https://www.metropoles.com/distrito-federal/cardeal-dom-jose-freire-falcao-morre-apos-complicacoes-da-covid-19|access-date=27 September 2021|website=Metrópoles|language=pt-BR}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Freire Falcao, Jose}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Brazilian cardinals]] [[Category:Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishops]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Brasília]] [[Category:People from Brasília]]