section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  In 1972, Guterres married child psychiatrist Luísa Amélia Guimarães e Melo, with whom he had two children, Pedro Guimarães e Melo Guterres (born 1977) and Mariana Guimarães e Melo Guterres (born 1985). His wife died of cancer at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1998 at the age of 51.
  
  In 2001, Guterres married Catarina Marques de Almeida Vaz Pinto (born 1960), a former Portuguese state secretary for culture and culture secretary for the City Council of Lisbon.
  
  In addition to his native Portuguese, Guterres speaks English, French, and Spanish.
  
  Guterres is a practicing Catholic.