Bishop Ignatius Menezes

Bishop Emeritus of Ajmer, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jan 1936		Born
21 Dec 1963	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lucknow, India
15 Nov 1978	42.8	Appointed	Bishop of Ajmer and Jaipur, India
17 Feb 1979	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ajmer and Jaipur, India
3 Nov 2012	76.8	Retired	Bishop of Ajmer, India
31 Jan 2013	77.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Allahabad, India
3 Dec 2013	77.9	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Allahabad, India

MicroData Summary
Ignatius Menezes
Bishop Ignatius Menezes
(born 3 Jan 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Ajmer

Event Place
Birth Place Agrar
Ordained Bishop Ajmer, Diocese of Ajmer and Jaipur

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ajmer.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Leo D’Mello †
Bishop Emeritus of Ajmer and Jaipur
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Cecil DeSa †
Bishop of Lucknow
Bishop Patrick Paul D’Souza †
Bishop of Varanasi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Leo D’Mello † (1949)
Bishop Emeritus of Ajmer and Jaipur
Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931)
Titular Archbishop of Salamis
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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:
Father John Carvalho (1996)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Pathalil † (1985)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pius Thomas D’Souza (2013)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1657355

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 20 Jul 2005
r: Bollettino, 3 Nov 2012
ab: Bollettino, 31 Jan 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,893

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