Bishop Valentim Fagundes de Meneses, M.S.C.

Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jul 1953		Born
2 Feb 1979	25.5	Professed	Member of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
2 Jul 1982	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
29 Jul 2020	67.0	Appointed	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
26 Sep 2020	67.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
10 Oct 2020	67.2	Installed	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Valentim Fagundes de Meneses
Bishop Valentim Fagundes de Meneses M.S.C.
(born 22 Jul 1953)
Bishop of Balsas

Event Place
Birth Place Agualva, Diocese of Angra, Portugal
Ordained Bishop Nossa Senhora do Sagrado Coração, Church, Praça Seca, Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Balsas.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Pedro José Conti
Bishop of Macapá, Amapa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Antônio Carlos Cruz Santos, M.S.C.
Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte
Bishop José Carlos Brandão Cabral
Bishop of Almenara, Minas Gerais

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Pedro José Conti (1996)
Bishop of Macapá, Amapa
Archbishop Vicente Joaquim Zico, C.M. † (1981)
Archbishop of Belém do Pará
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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):

WikiData: Q97825667

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 29 Jul 2020
c2+: CB, 30 Jul 2020
i: AM, 5 Oct 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 245, Number 20,499

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