Fr. Tiago Cardoso, NDS joins St. James Vicariate

Fr. Tiago Rangel CARDOSO, NDS was born on March 31st, 1987, in Ponta Grossa - Parana (Brazil).

in 2005 he entered the Congregation of the Religious of Our Lady of Sion and was ordained a deacon in September 2019. A year later, on August 20th, 2020, he received the sacrament of Holy Orders in the degree of Presbiterate. Fr. Tiago's mother tongue is Portuguese. He also speaks Hebrew, English, French, Spanish and is quite good in Italian.

On June 12th, 2019, Fr. Tiago sit an oral final examination, according to the second procedure contemplated in the Regulations of Studium Theologicum Salesianum. The candidate presented the biblical foundation of, the patristic and magisterial development of, and a systematic theological reflection on, three proposed theological themes.

Fr. Tiago belongs to the Congregation on the Brothers of Sion.

The (male) Religious of Our Lady of Sion have the same name as the sisters and were founded by the two brothers Theodore and Alphonse Ratisbonne. They were Jews from Strasbourg and became Christians and Catholic priests in the middle of the 19th century. Alphonse’s sudden conversion in Rome on January 20th, 1842, in the church of Sant’ Andrea delle Fratte was perceived by both brothers as a bright light shining on the destiny of their people Israel and as a sign of God’s will that a group be founded in the Church to work among the Jews.

Today, the congregation’s aim is to be witnesses in the Church of God’s love for Israel. This demands that the religious know and make known through their studies and their teaching and in their pastoral and cultural activities the religious, human and spiritual values lived by the Jewish people.

The congregation includes some forty religious, of whom some thirty are priests; they are spread out over several houses in Brazil, France and Jerusalem.

We hope that the collaboration between St. James Vicariate and the Congregation of Brothers of Sion will continue and wish Fr. Tiago all the best and a lot of God's Grace in SJV.

Fr. Tiago's email address is: stjames.frtiago@lpj.org