What is Alexandre do Nascimento?
[[File:Cardeal Alexandre do Nascimento 032021.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Nascimento in 2021]] '''Alexandre do Nascimento''' (1 March 1925 &ndash; 28 September 2024) was an [[Angola]]n [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal of the Catholic Church]]. He was the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Luanda|Archbishop of Luanda]] from 1986 to 2001, and was elevated to the [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinalate]] in 1983 by [[Pope John Paul II]]. He was born in [[Malanje]], [[Angola|Portuguese Angola]]. On 10 August 1975, Nascimento was appointed the fourth [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Malanje|bishop of Malanje]] by [[Pope Paul VI]]. Nascimento was kidnapped by [[Guerrilla warfare|guerrillas]] during a pastoral visit on 15 October 1982; he was later freed on 16 November of that same year after [[Pope John Paul II]] made an appeal for his release.<ref>{{cite web| access-date = 24 October 2017| title= do Nascimento Card. Alexandre |publisher= [[Holy See Press Office]] | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_do-nascimento_a.html | url-status=live | archive-date= 4 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170904061759/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_do-nascimento_a.html }}</ref> Nascimento became the oldest living member of the [[College of Cardinals]] in August 2022, after the death of [[Jozef Tomko]]. Nascimento died on 28 September 2024 in [[Luanda]], Angola at the age of 99.<ref>{{cite news |title=Faleceu Dom Alexandre do Nascimento |language=pt|url=https://angop.ao/noticias/sociedade/faleceu-cardeal-dom-alexandre-do-nacimento/ |access-date=28 September 2024 |publisher=Angop |date=28 September 2024}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-n.htm#Nascimento Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817210315/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-n.htm#Nascimento |date=2014-08-17 }} *[http://www.cathol