A INFLUÊNCIA DO CATOLICISMO DE DOM FERNANDO ARÊAS RIFAN NA EDUCAÇÃO DE CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES/RJ

Abstract

Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan, Apostolic Administrator of the Administração Pessoal São João Maria Vianney, is a great defender of Catholicism in its traditional form. He began the defense of this flag from the Second Vatican Council which established several changes in the structure of Catholic Christian Tradition. As far as education is concerned, Bishop Rifan also plays a highly representative role due to his position as general principal of Colégio Três Pastorinhos, a school institution that has been active for 36 years in Campos dos Goytacazes municipality, whose educational principles are based on the construction of an identity Christian faith, which is sometimes in conflict with some contexts of contemporary society. The general objective of this dissertation is to describe the priestly and episcopal work of Dom Fernando Arêas Rifan in the historical context of Catholicism in the traditional form (referring to the practices of the customs of the Catholic Church prior to the Second Vatican Council) in Campos dos Goytacazes, from the decade of 1980, emphasizing the effective performance of the aforementioned bishop in local education. The study proposed as a theoretical reference a cut related to the territorial constitution of Campos dos Goytacazes municipality from the colonization of the Portuguese and catechization of the Indians, the schism of local Catholicism in the 1980s; the relevance of the ministry of Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan in the defense and maintenance of the Catholic tradition; and the promotion of Catholic education at Colégio Três Pastorinhos, in order to perpetuate Catholicism in the traditional way in Campos dos Goytacazes municipality. As for the research methodology, a blibiographic research was carried out in several publications that considered the established theoretical clipping. It was also carried out a field research with the objective of investigating the perceptions of a sample composed of 10 (ten) collaborators of Colégio Três Pastorinhos, about the education in the mold of the traditional Catholicism way. It is concluded that the bishop is a relevant figure for Campos dos Goytacazes society in the educational formation of students who understand its importance in the exercise of citizenship and, mainly, in the maintenance of the tradition of the Christian values of the Catholic Church, which are part of the History of the world.