Bishop Franco Cuter, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil

Motto: Ipse Est Pax Nostra

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jul 1940		Born
3 Oct 1957	17.1	Entered	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
4 Oct 1958	18.1	Temporary Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
4 Oct 1961	21.1	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
26 Mar 1966	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
21 Jan 1998	57.4	Appointed	Bishop of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil
19 Mar 1998	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil
7 Dec 2016	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil
28 Sep 2019	79.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Grajaú, Maranhão, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Franco Cuter
Bishop Franco Cuter O.F.M. Cap.
(born 28 Jul 1940, died 28 Sep 2019)
Bishop Emeritus of Grajaú

Ad Limina - October 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gazzaniga, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Priest Sant’Ambrogio, Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Atrium, Cathedral, Grajaú, Diocese of Grajaú, Maranhão
Death Place Varese, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Cemetery, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

a priest for 53.5 years
a bishop for 21.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luigi Oldani †
Titular Bishop of Gergis
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte †
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges
Bishop of Viana, Maranhão
Bishop Servílio Conti, I.M.C. †
Titular Bishop of Thuburbo Maius

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte † (1971)
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gazzaniga, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Priest	Sant’Ambrogio, Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Atrium, Cathedral, Grajaú, Diocese of Grajaú, Maranhão
Death Place	Varese, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Cemetery, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1247042

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Number 13,255
r: Bollettino, 7 Dec 2016
bpd: AM, 8 Jul 2019
d: CB, 29 Sep 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
c1: AM, 18 Jan 2025

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