Américo Manuel Cardinal Alves Aguiar

Bishop of Setúbal, Portugal

Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana

Motto: In Manus Tuas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Dec 1973		Born
8 Jul 2001	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto, Portugal
1 Mar 2019	45.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
1 Mar 2019	45.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Dagnum
31 Mar 2019	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Dagnum
21 Sep 2023	49.7	Appointed	Bishop of Setúbal, Portugal
30 Sep 2023	49.7	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Sep 2023	49.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana
26 Oct 2023	49.8	Installed	Bishop of Setúbal, Portugal
3 Dec 2023	49.9	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana

MicroData Summary
Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar
Américo Manuel Cardinal Alves Aguiar
(born 12 Dec 1973)
Bishop of Setúbal

Consistory - 2023: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Leça do Balio, Diocese of Porto
Ordained Bishop Santissima Trindade, Church, Porto, Diocese of Porto

Please contact the Cardinal through the Diocese of Setúbal.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho †
Bishop of Porto
Principal Consecrator:
Manuel José Cardinal Macário do Nascimento Clemente
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manuel da Silva Rodrigues Linda
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A.
Archbishop of Panamá

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Manuel José Cardinal Macário do Nascimento Clemente (2000)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Patriarch José da Cruz Policarpo † (1978)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
António Cardinal Ribeiro † (1967)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira † (1928)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † (1915)
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop António José de Souza Barroso † (1891)
Bishop of Porto
José Sebastião (d’Almeida) Cardinal Neto, O.F.M. Disc. † (1880)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop Gaetano Aloisi Masella † (1877)
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Fernando Maio de Paiva (2024)
Bishop Rui Augusto Jardim Gouveia (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Leça do Balio, Diocese of Porto
Ordained Bishop	Santissima Trindade, Church, Porto, Diocese of Porto

External Link(s):

VIAF: 302561996
WikiData: Q61927457

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 1 Mar 2019
ob/c1: CB, 1 Mar 2019
c2+: CB, 27 Mar 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 239, Number 20,127
card: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2023
ab: Bollettino, 21 Sep 2023
cpri: Bollettino, 30 Sep 2023
i: Bollettino, 27 Nov 2023

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