Eduardo Dougherty
Fr. Edward John Dougherty, SJ is an American-Brazilian Jesuit priest, educator, communicator and religious leader of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement in Brazil.
Father Dougherty was born on January 29, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He was ordained in 1965 and first came to Brazil in 1966. He did his theological studies in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Before returning to Brazil, in 1969, he underwent his baptism of the Holy Spirit at Michigan, becoming a charismatic. Establishing himself in Campinas, a city in the state of São Paulo, he began to collaborate with another American Jesuit priest of the charismatic movement, Father Harold Rahm.
In 1980, Father Dougherty founded the Associação Senhor Jesus a not-for-profit educational and religious association located in Valinhos, São Paulo, which began by selling and distributing religious publications, music records, etc., and soon afterwards, the TV program "Anunciamos o Senhor", involving a national chain of three TV stations covering 60% of Brazilian territory.
In 1990, he started his own satellite TV channel called "TV Século 21", supported by a foundation with the same name. With excellent and extensive facilities in an area of more than 24,000 m²., the TV enjoys one of the most extensive retransmission networks of educational television channels in Latin America.
Father Dougherty has a keen entrepreneurial and marketing approach to his ministry and has studied business administration in the USA.Quote
