João Scognamiglio Clá Dias
| The Very Reverend João Scognamiglio Clá Dias | |
|---|---|
| Superior General emeritus of the Heralds of the Gospel | |
| Successor | to be designated |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
14 August 1939 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
João Scognamiglio Clá Dias (born São Paulo, 15 August 1939) is a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and religious writer. He was the founder of the Heralds of the Gospel in 2001 and their Superior General until his resignation on 2 June 2017. He was a member of the Marian Congregations, of the Third Carmelite Order, since 23 May 1956, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 15 June 2005, aged 64 years old.
Early life and studies
Clá Dias is the son of a Spanish father, António Clá Diaz, from Cádiz, and an Italian mother, Annitta Scognamiglio Clá Dias, born in Rome, both emmigrants to Brazil. He studied Law at the Faculty of the Largo de São Francisco, in São Paulo. He has degrees in Philosophy and Theology at the Italian-Brazilian Universitarian Center, of São Paulo. He also is licentiated in Humanities by the Pontifícia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, of the Dominican Republic, a Master in Canon Law by the Pontifício Instituto de Direito Canônico of Rio de Janeiro, and a Doctorate in Canon Law by the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, in Rome.[1]
Heralds of the Gospel
A member of the Tradition, Family and Property society, founded by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, of which he was a longtime colaborator and personal secretary, after his death in 1995, he disputed legally his ownership, won it judicially, but decided to replace it with the Heralds of the Gospel, recognized on 22 February 2001 as an International Association of Pontifical Right by the Holy See. He was Superior General until his resignation on 2 June 2017, announced on 12 June 2017.[2]
Works
He already published several books, including O Inédito sobre os Evangelhos (2013-2016), in 7 volumes, translated into english as New Insights on the Gospels, and his biography of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, O Dom de Sabedoria na Mente, Vida e Obra de Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (2016), in 5 volumes.