Bishop Edwin Colaço †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Oct 1937		Born
2 Dec 1964	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
1 Apr 1995	57.4	Appointed	Bishop of Amravati, India
30 Jul 1995	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Amravati, India
20 Oct 2006	69.0	Appointed	Bishop of Aurangabad, India
13 May 2015	77.6	Retired	Bishop of Aurangabad, India
22 Sep 2025	87.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad, India

MicroData Summary
Edwin Colaço
Bishop Edwin Colaço
(born 2 Oct 1937, died 22 Sep 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Aurangabad

Ad Limina - September 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Uttan, Archdiocese of Bombay
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Near, Dyanamata High School, Amravati, Diocese of Amravati

a priest for 60.8 years
a bishop for 30.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta †
Archbishop of Bombay
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leobard D’Souza †
Archbishop of Nagpur
Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop Emeritus of Amravati

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Simon Ignatius Cardinal Pimenta † (1971)
Archbishop of Bombay
Valerian Cardinal Gracias † (1946)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. † (1937)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Richard Joseph Downey † (1928)
Archbishop of Liverpool, England
Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne † (1896)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Herbert Alfred Henry Cardinal Vaughan † (1872)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Henry Edward Manning † (1865)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846)
Bishop of Birmingham, England
Bishop John Briggs † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Dragobitia (Drago)
Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824)
Titular Bishop of Europus
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Titular Bishop of Alia
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Centuria
Bishop William Gibson † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Achantus
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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:
Bishop Lourdunada Daniel (2007)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Uttan, Archdiocese of Bombay
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Near, Dyanamata High School, Amravati, Diocese of Amravati

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1294483

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 20 Oct 2006
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,668
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 63
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 13 May 2015
d: CB, 22 Sep 2025
bpd: CB, 23 Sep 2025

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