José Freire Cardinal Falcão †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Cardinal-Priest of San Luca a Via Prenestina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Oct 1925		Born
19 Jun 1949	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
24 Apr 1967	41.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
24 Apr 1967	41.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vardimissa
17 Jun 1967	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vardimissa
19 Aug 1967	41.8	Succeeded	Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
25 Nov 1971	46.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
15 Feb 1984	58.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
28 Jun 1988	62.6	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Jun 1988	62.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Luca a Via Prenestina
28 Jan 2004	78.2	Retired	Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
26 Sep 2021	95.9	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

MicroData Summary for José Freire Falcão
(VIAF: 313405347; WikiData: Q546817)
José Freire Cardinal Falcão (born 23 Oct 1925, died 26 Sep 2021) Archbishop Emeritus of Brasília

Consistory - 1988: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Ereré, Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara
Death Place Santa Lúcia, Hospital, Brasília, Archdiocese of Brasília, Distrito Federal

a priest for 72.2 years
a bishop for 54.2 years
a cardinal for 33.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado †
Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Vicente de Paulo Araújo Matos †
Bishop of Crato, Ceara
Bishop José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago †
Bishop of Iguatu, Ceara

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Marcony Vinícius Ferreira (1988)
Bishop Marcos Antônio Tavoni (1996)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Pompeu Bezerra Bessa † (1973)
Raymundo Cardinal Damasceno Assis (1986)
Bishop Agostinho Stefan Januszewicz, O.F.M. Conv. † (1989)
Bishop Jésus Rocha † (1994)
Bishop Francisco de Paula Victor † (1996)
Bishop João Casimiro Wilk, O.F.M. Conv. (1998)
Archbishop Marcony Vinícius Ferreira (2014)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Gonzalez Alonso (1995)
Bishop José Ronaldo Ribeiro (2007)
Bishop Waldemar Passini Dalbello (2010)
Bishop Valdir Mamede (2013)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ereré, Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara
Death Place	Santa Lúcia, Hospital, Brasília, Archdiocese of Brasília, Distrito Federal

Source(s):

d: CB, 27 Sep 2021
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 28 Jun 1988
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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