Editing Cláudio Hummes (section)

=== Early life and education ===
Hummes was born Auri Alfonso Hummes in the village of [[Batinga Sul, Rio Grande do Sul|Batinga Sul]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=2022-07-13 |title=Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Close Ally of Pope Francis, Dies at 87 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/world/americas/cardinal-claudio-hummes-dead.html |access-date=2022-07-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> to Pedro Adão Hummes, a [[German-Brazilian]], and Maria Frank, a German. Taking the name Cláudio upon his profession as a [[Franciscan]], he was [[Holy Orders|ordained]] to the priesthood on 3 August 1958 by Archbishop [[João Resende Costa]]. He obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1963 from the [[Pontifical University Antonianum]] in [[Rome]].

From 1963 until 1968, he taught philosophy at the Franciscan [[seminary]] in [[Garibaldi]], the major seminary of [[Viamão]], and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre. He then studied at the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey in [[Geneva]], Switzerland, where he received a specialization in [[Catholic Church and ecumenism|ecumenism]]. He was adviser for ecumenical affairs to the [[Episcopal Conference of Brazil]], [[Provincial Superior]] of the Franciscans of [[Rio Grande do Sul]] (1972–1975), and president of the Union of Latin American Conferences of Franciscans.

Along with his native [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] he speaks [[Riograndenser Hunsrückisch]], a regional German dialect of south.