Bishop João Nílton dos Santos Souza

Bishop Emeritus of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1943		Born
20 Dec 1969	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil
4 Aug 1986	42.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil
9 Nov 1986	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil
31 Aug 1988	44.9	Appointed	Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil
30 Oct 1988	45.1	Installed	Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil
10 Jun 2015	71.7	Resigned	Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil

MicroData Summary
João Nílton dos Santos Souza
Bishop João Nílton dos Santos Souza
(born 2 Sep 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Amargosa

Ad Limina - September 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Amargosa, Diocese of Amargosa, Bahia
Ordained Bishop Amargosa, Diocese of Amargosa, Bahia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Amargosa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo †
Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Floréncio Cicinho (Sisinio) Vieira †
Bishop Emeritus of Amargosa, Bahia
Bishop José Nicomedes Grossi †
Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo † (1970)
Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales † (1954)
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Archbishop Moisés Sizenando Coelho † (1915)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Archbishop Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado (2000)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1710178

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,247
r: Bollettino, 10 Jun 2015

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