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Bishop Pompeu Bezerra Bessa †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara

Events

a priest for 50.6 years a bishop for 27.2 years

Principal Consecrator: José Cardinal Freire Falcão Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago Bishop Afonso de Oliveira Lima, S.D.S. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Pompeu Bezerra Bessa † (1973) José Cardinal Freire Falcão (1967) Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941) Archbishop Moisés Ferreira Coelho † (1915) Archbishop Adauctus Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894) Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871) Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828) Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823) Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788) Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777) Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762) Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743) Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724) Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675) Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666) Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630) Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622) Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621) Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604) Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586) Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566) Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

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