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Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta -LRB- July 16 , 1890 , Bom Jesus do Amparo , archdiocese of Mariana , Minas Gerais , Brazil -- September 18 , 1982 , Aparecida , Sao Paulo , Brazil -RRB- was a long-serving cardinal .. Bom Jesus do Amparo. Bom Jesus do Amparo. Mariana. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana. Minas Gerais. Minas Gerais. Brazil. Brazil. Aparecida. Aparecida. Sao Paulo. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo. cardinal. cardinal ( Catholicism ). Until Eugenio de Araujo Sales surpassed him in 2005 , he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal , and during his cardinalate the Church in Brazil underwent tremendous expansion , involving the development of many new movements that were to develop after he had largely disappeared from the scene .. Brazil. Brazil. cardinal. cardinal ( Catholicism ). Eugenio de Araujo Sales. Eugenio de Araujo Sales. Originally from a small village in the state of Minas Gerais , the future Cardinal gained his education in the local seminary in the city of Mariana .. Mariana. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mariana. Minas Gerais. Minas Gerais. state. States of Brazil. He was ordained in 1918 , and spent much of the next fifteen years in the state capital of Belo Horizonte as a seminary rector .. state. States of Brazil. Belo Horizonte. Belo Horizonte. He became a bishop in 1932 , but only of a titular see .. titular. titular see. His first proper appointment as a diocesan bishop was to the Archdiocese of Sao Luis in the remote state of Maranhao three years later , but Motta attracted no wider attention until he was promoted to Brazil 's most prestigious see in Sao Paulo in 1944 .. Brazil. Brazil. Sao Paulo. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo. state. States of Brazil. Archdiocese of Sao Luis. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Luis do Maranhao. Maranhao. Maranhao. With his appointment as a cardinal after Pope Pius XII felt for the first time in his pontificate that a consistory was feasible -LRB- due to the hositilities caused by World War II , it was argued , a consistory was impossible between 1939 and 1945 -RRB- , Motta became effectively the leader of the Church in Brazil for the next twenty years or so until a new generation of leaders -LRB- Sales , Arns , Lorscheider -RRB- emerged .. Brazil. Brazil. cardinal. cardinal ( Catholicism ). Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius XII. consistory. Papal consistory. World War II. World War II. Arns. Paulo Evaristo Arns. Lorscheider. Aloisio Lorscheider. In this role , Cardinal Motta was faced with the difficult task of what policy to take when confronted with widespread anguish at the great social inequality so characteristic of Brazil .. Brazil. Brazil. In the 1950s , he became the first archbishop in the Catholic Church to regularly hold episcopal synods - something that became regular practice after Vatican II .. Vatican II. Vatican II. Amongst his closest pupils was the latterly famous Helder Camara .. Helder Camara. Helder Camara. he was the effective leader of the First General Conference of South American Bishops in 1955 .. On the other side , Motta had to contend with the ultra-right-wing group Tradition , Family and Property , which aimed to win him over with a still-extant letter in 1956 .. Regarded as a quiet man who did not like publicity , Motta 's reply has characteristically not survived .. Motta attended the sessions of the Second Vatican Council and was transferred to the see of Aparecida in 1964 .. Aparecida. Aparecida. Second Vatican Council. Second Vatican Council. His role in the Church declined significantly after this , however , as new generations of Church leaders contended with the problems of Brazil 's 1964 military coup .. Brazil. Brazil. military coup. military coup. He participated in the conclaves of 1958 and 1963 but lost his right to participate in further conclaves on January 1 , 1971 as a result of Pope Paul VI 's motu proprio Ingravescentem aetatem .. Papal conclave, 1958. Papal conclave, 1963. Pope Paul VI. Pope Paul VI. motu proprio. motu proprio. Ingravescentem aetatem. Ingravescentem aetatem. When he died in 1982 , Cardinal Motta was the longest-serving cardinal in the Church .. cardinal. cardinal ( Catholicism ). He was the third-last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope Pius XII behind Paul-Emile Leger and Giuseppe Siri , and the last surviving cardinal elevated in the 1946 consistory .. cardinal. cardinal ( Catholicism ). Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius XII. consistory. Papal consistory. Paul-Emile Leger. Paul-Emile Leger. Giuseppe Siri. Giuseppe Siri