Curriculum José Manuel Pereira de Almeida

José Manuel Pereira de Almeida is Vice Rector for Pastoral affairs, Ethics and Social Responsibility at UCP. Ordained priest in 1986, he is currently the parish priest of Santa Isabel, in Lisbon; Assistant to Caritas Portugal and to the National Commission for Justice and Peace; National Coordinator of Pastoral Health Care; Secretary of the Episcopal Commission for the Social Pastoral and Human Mobility; Vice-president of the Ethic Committee of the public hospitals of Lisbon. He graduated in medicine at the University of Lisbon in 1976 and holds a Phd in Theology by the Gregorian University, Rome, 1999. As a doctor, he was a pathologist at the cytology laboratory of the Oncological Institute Francisco Gentil, in Lisbon, until 2009; As a full professor at UCP he lectures Social Moral Theology at the Faculty of Theology; is member of the Scientific council of the Institute of Political Studies, member of the UCP Scientific Society and the Scientific Council of Bioethics Institute. He is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology of Southern Italy (Naples).

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