Bishop Jesús Tirso Blanco, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Bishop of Lwena, Angola

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jun 1957		Born
24 Jan 1982	24.6	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
28 Sep 1985	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
26 Nov 2007	50.4	Appointed	Bishop of Lwena, Angola
2 Mar 2008	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lwena, Angola
9 Mar 2008	50.7	Installed	Bishop of Lwena, Angola
22 Feb 2022	64.7	Died	Bishop of Lwena, Angola

MicroData Summary
Jesús Tirso Blanco
Bishop Jesús Tirso Blanco S.D.B.
(born 3 Jun 1957, died 22 Feb 2022)
Bishop of Lwena

Ad Limina - October 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ramos Mejía, Argentina
Ordained Bishop Cidadela Desportiva, Luanda, Archdiocese of Luanda
Death Place Sacro Cuore "Don Calabria, Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Diocese of Verona, Italy

a priest for 36.4 years
a bishop for 13.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Zacarias Kamwenho †
Archbishop of Lubango
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Damião António Franklin †
Archbishop of Luanda
Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu
Titular Archbishop of Rusellae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Zacarias Kamwenho † (1974)
Archbishop of Lubango
Bishop Américo Henriques † (1966)
Bishop of Nova Lisboa
Archbishop Maximilien de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Paltus
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 9160604801616122299
WikiData: Q1657085

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Nov 2007
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 193, Number 15,684
d: CB, 22 Feb 2022
d.loc: CB, 23 Feb 2022

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