Bishop Alfred Fernández †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Sep 1915		Born
20 Dec 1942	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
13 Apr 1967	51.5	Appointed	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India
29 Jun 1967	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh, India
25 Jun 1970	54.7	Appointed	Bishop of Allahabad, India
15 Dec 1975	60.2	Resigned	Bishop of Allahabad, India
27 Jan 1983	67.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad, India

MicroData Summary
Alfred Fernández
Bishop Alfred Fernández
(born 8 Sep 1915, died 27 Jan 1983)
Bishop Emeritus of Allahabad

Event Place
Birth Place Hyderabad

a priest for 40.1 years
a bishop for 15.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Mark Gopu †
Archbishop of Hyderabad
Bishop Alfonso Beretta, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop of Warangal

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gilbert Blaize Rego † (1971)
Archbishop Cecil DeSa † (1971)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64733378

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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