Pelé in the sport. Pelé was born Edson Arantes do Nascimento on 23 October 1940, in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the son of Fluminense footballer Dondinho (born João Ramos do Nascimento) and Celeste Arantes. He was the elder of two siblings. He was named after the American inventor Thomas Edison. His parents decided to remove the "i" and call him "Edson", but there was a mistake on the birth certificate, leading many documents to show his name as "Edison", not "Edson", as he is called. He was originally nicknamed "Dico" by his family. He received the nickname "Pelé" during his
Alexandre do Nascimento after Pope John Paul II made an appeal for his release. John Paul II created him Cardinal-Priest of "S. Marco in Agro Laurentino" in the consistory of 2 February 1983. He preached the Lenten spiritual exercises for the Pope and members of the Roman Curia in 1984. The Cardinal was appointed the thirty-fourth Archbishop of Luanda on 16 February 1986, later resigning this post on 23 January 2001. Nascimento lost the right to participate in any future papal conclave upon reaching the age of 80 on 1 March 2005, just weeks before the 2005 papal conclave. Alexandre do Nascimento Alexandre