Agnelo Rossi (May 4, 1913 - May 21, 1995) was an Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. Agnelo Rossi was born on May 4, 1913 in Joaquim Egidio, Brazil, in the Diocese of Campinas. In 1933 he left his Brazilian home for Rome. There he studied at the Pontifical College Pio Brasileiro and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest on March 27, 1937 in the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica by Luigi Traglia, Vice-Regent of Rome.