Bishop Américo do Couto Oliveira †

Deceased

Bishop of Lamego

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jan 1929		Born	Santo Tirso
5 Jul 1953	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
20 Nov 1993	64.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
6 Jan 1994	65.0	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
5 Jan 1995	66.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
2 Dec 1998	69.9	Died	Bishop of Lamego, Portugal

a priest for 45.4 years
a bishop for 4.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re
Archbishop Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Américo do Couto Oliveira † (1994)
Pope Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła † (1958)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
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 Jacinto Tomás de Carvalho Botelho

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,192
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)

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