Archbishop Heitor de Araújo Sales

Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jul 1926		Born
3 Dec 1950	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Natal, Brazil
5 May 1978	51.7	Appointed	Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
16 Jul 1978	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
27 Oct 1993	67.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
26 Nov 2003	77.3	Retired	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Heitor de Araújo Sales
Archbishop Heitor de Araújo Sales
(born 29 Jul 1926)
Archbishop Emeritus of Natal

Ad Limina - September 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place São José de Mipibu, Diocese of Natal
Ordained Priest Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, Church, Natal, Diocese of Natal
Ordained Bishop Gymnase Olympique, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Event	Place
Birth Place	São José de Mipibu, Diocese of Natal
Ordained Priest	Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, Church, Natal, Diocese of Natal
Ordained Bishop	Gymnase Olympique, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Relatives

Brother of: Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales †, Archbishop Emeritus of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Natal.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
- Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales †
  Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Archbishop Nivaldo Monte †
  Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
- Bishop Manuel Tavares de Araújo †
  Bishop Emeritus of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales † (1954)
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Archbishop Moisés Sizenando Coelho † (1915)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Archbishop Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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

Ordained Priest:
- Bishop Francisco de Assis Dantas de Lucena (1991)
Principal Consecrator of:
- Bishop Francisco de Assis Dantas de Lucena (2008)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
- Bishop Francisco Canindé Palhano (2006)
- Bishop Edilson Soares Nobre (2017)
- Bishop Alcivan Tadeus Gomes de Araújo (2024)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 89411166
WikiData: Q1601420

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 48, Number 3,312
opd: CB, 9 Aug 2025

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