Clóvis Frainer

Infobox Christian leader type = Archbishop name = Clóvis Frainer honorific_suffix = OFMCap title = Archbishop of Juiz de Fora image = Dom Clóvis Frainer.JPG caption = Bishop Clóvis Frainer in 2011 church = Catholic Church archdiocese = Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora term = 22 May 1991 – 28 November 2001 predecessor = Juvenal Roriz successor = Eurico dos Santos Veloso previous_post = Archbishop of Manaus (1985-1991)Prelate of Coxim (1978-1985) ordination = 27 March 1955 ordained_by = Alfredo Scherer consecration = 9 April 1978 consecrated_by = Carmine Rocco

Life Frainer was born in Veranópolis, Brazil, in March 1931. He entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and was ordained a priest by the Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Alfredo Vicente Scherer, on 27 March 1955. Pope Paul VI appointed Frainer on 3 January 1978 the first prelate of the territorial prelature of Coxim, which was established on the same date. The apostolic nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Carmine Rocco, consecrated Frainer as a bishop on 9 April of the same year; Co-consecrators were Benedito Zorzi, Bishop of Caxias do Sul, and Antônio Barbosa SDB, bishop of Campo Grande. Frainer's motto as a bishop was Evangelisare misit me ("He sent me to evangelize").

On 5 January 1985, Frainer was appointed archbishop of Archdiocese of Manaus by Pope John Paul II and on 22 May 1991, Frainer was appointed archbishop of Archdiocese of Juiz de Fora. On 28 November 2001, John Paul II accepted his resignation for health reasons.