Humberto Sousa Medeiros
Catholic cardinal
Died when: 67 years 346 days (815 months)Star Sign: Libra
Humberto Sousa Medeiros, GCIH (October 6, 1915 – September 17, 1983) was a Portuguese-American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as Archbishop of Boston from 1970 until his death in 1983, and was created a cardinal in 1973.
An ecclesiastical conservative, Cardinal Medeiros was considered a champion of the immigrant worker, the poor and minorities.Medeiros transferred John Geoghan from parish to parish despite multiple credible accusations of sexual abuse.
He knew of dozens of sexual abuse accusations against Paul Shanley.Medeiros himself was accused of sexual impropriety posthumously both by Shanley and Gerry Garland, a former hockey star at Catholic Memorial High School.
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