Bishop Gerald Almeida

Bishop Emeritus of Jabalpur, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Mar 1946		Born
14 Dec 1974	28.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jabalpur, India
20 May 1997	51.2	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Jabalpur, India
17 Sep 1997	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Jabalpur, India
16 May 2001	55.1	Succeeded	Bishop of Jabalpur, India
13 Jan 2024	77.8	Retired	Bishop of Jabalpur, India
13 Jan 2024	77.8	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Jabalpur, India
8 Apr 2024	78.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Jabalpur, India

MicroData Summary
Gerald Almeida
Bishop Gerald Almeida
(born 7 Mar 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Jabalpur

Ad Limina - September 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Udyavar
Ordained Bishop Grounds of, Saint Aloysius Senior School, Jabalpur, Diocese of Jabalpur

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Jabalpur.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Leobard D’Souza †
Bishop of Jabalpur
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Théophane Matthew Thannickunnel, O. Praem. †
Bishop of Jabalpur
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leobard D’Souza †
Archbishop of Nagpur
Archbishop Paschal Topno, S.J.
Archbishop of Bhopal

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Théophane Matthew Thannickunnel, O. Praem. † (1977)
Bishop of Jabalpur
Archbishop Eugene Louis D’Souza, M.S.F.S. † (1951)
Archbishop of Bhopal
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jesu Gaspar Valan Arasu (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1509785

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Number 13,144
opd/c1: CB, 9 May 2020
r: Bollettino, 13 Jan 2024
aadm: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 116, Page 911

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