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Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay

Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania

Events

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Bombay. a priest for years a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator: Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Gilbert Blaize Rego † Bishop Dominic Joseph Abreo †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca (1980) Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta (1971) Valerian Cardinal Gracias † (1946) Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. † (1937) Archbishop Richard Downey † (1928) Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne † (1896) Herbert Alfred Henry Cardinal Vaughan † (1872) Henry Edward Cardinal Manning † (1865) Archbishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846) Bishop John Briggs † (1833) Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824) Bishop William Poynter † (1803) Bishop John Douglass † (1790) Bishop William Gibson † (1790) Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756) Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732) Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730) Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721) Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685) Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670) 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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Bosco Penha Bishop Thomas Dabre Archbishop Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão Oswald Cardinal Gracias