Bishop José Brandão de Castro, C.Ss.R. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 May 1919		Born
2 Feb 1939	19.6	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
6 Jan 1944	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
25 Jun 1960	41.0	Appointed	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
21 Sep 1960	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
30 Oct 1987	68.4	Resigned	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
23 Dec 1999	80.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil

MicroData Summary
José Brandão de Castro
Bishop José Brandão de Castro C.Ss.R.
(born 24 May 1919, died 23 Dec 1999)
Bishop Emeritus of Propriá

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Rio Espera, Archdiocese of Mariana, Minas Gerais
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Belo Horizonte, Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Death Place Curvelo

a priest for 55.9 years
a bishop for 39.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Armando Lombardi †
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop João Resende (Rezende) Costa, S.D.B. †
Titular Archbishop of Martyropolis
Bishop José Lázaro Neves, C.M. †
Bishop of Assis, Sao Paulo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Armando Lombardi † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Luciano José Cabral Duarte † (1966)
Archbishop Juvenal Roriz, C.Ss.R. † (1967)
Bishop Lélis Lara, C.Ss.R. † (1977)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 14150323642109970755
WikiData: Q20717008

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1960, Number 95
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Necrology (back)

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