Bishop Homero Leite Meira †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1931		Born
8 Dec 1955	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
7 Nov 1978	46.9	Appointed	Bishop of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
27 Dec 1978	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
24 Sep 1980	48.8	Appointed	Bishop of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil
13 Jun 1983	51.5	Resigned	Bishop of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil
8 May 2014	82.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Irecê, Bahia, Brazil

MicroData Summary for Homero Leite Meira
(WikiData: Q1249564)
Bishop Homero Leite Meira (born 2 Dec 1931, died 8 May 2014) Bishop Emeritus of Irecê

Event Place
Birth Place Brumado
Ordained Bishop Caetité, Diocese of Caetité, Bahia

a priest for 58.4 years
a bishop for 35.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Eliseu Maria Gomes de Oliveira, O. Carm. †
Bishop of Caetité, Bahia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Terceiro de Sousa †
Bishop Emeritus of Penedo, Alagoas
Bishop Valfredo Bernardo Tepe, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Ilhéus, Bahia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Eliseu Maria Gomes de Oliveira, O. Carm. † (1968)
Bishop of Caetité, Bahia
Archbishop Adelmo Cavalcante Machado † (1948)
Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
Archbishop Ranulfo da Silva Farias † (1920)
Archbishop of Maceió, Alagoas
Archbishop Jerónimo Thomé da Silva † (1890)
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

Source(s):

d: CB, 10 May 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 58, Number 4,309

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