Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos

Bishop Emeritus of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jan 1937		Born
22 Dec 1962	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Taubaté, Sao Paulo, Brazil
28 Nov 2001	64.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
28 Nov 2001	64.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nasai
9 Feb 2002	65.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nasai
9 Mar 2002	65.1	Installed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
26 Apr 2006	69.2	Appointed	Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Sep 2013	76.6	Retired	Bishop of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil
16 Jul 2019	82.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil
13 Feb 2021	84.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Lorena, Sao Paulo, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Benedito Beni dos Santos
Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos
(born 15 Jan 1937)
Bishop Emeritus of Lorena

Ad Limina - November 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lagoinha
Ordained Bishop São Francisco de Chagas, Cathedral, Taubaté, Diocese of Taubaté, Sao Paulo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Lorena.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Cláudio Aury Affonso Cardinal Hummes, O.F.M. †
Archbishop of São Paulo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Carmo João Rhoden, S.C.I.
Bishop of Taubaté, Sao Paulo
Bishop Antônio Afonso de Miranda, S.D.N. †
Bishop Emeritus of Taubaté, Sao Paulo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Cláudio Aury Affonso Cardinal Hummes, O.F.M. † (1975)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Archbishop Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. † (1962)
Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
Archbishop Alfredo Vicente Scherer † (1947)
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Archbishop Carlo Chiarlo † (1928)
Titular Archbishop of Amida
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:
Bishop Pedro Carlos Cipolini (2010)
Archbishop João Inácio Müller, O.F.M. (2013)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q817077

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 26 Apr 2006
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 166, Number 14,131
r: Bollettino, 25 Sep 2013
aadm: AM, 25 Jan 2021

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