Archbishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jun 1916		Born
19 Nov 1939	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Mar 1970	53.7	Appointed	Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil
17 May 1970	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Amargosa, Bahia, Brazil
6 Apr 1988	71.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
27 Oct 1993	77.3	Retired	Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
20 Aug 1999	83.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

MicroData Summary for Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo
(WikiData: Q16501249)
Archbishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo (born 5 Jun 1916, died 20 Aug 1999) Archbishop Emeritus of Natal

Event Place
Birth Place Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Ordained Bishop St. Pierre de Alecrim, Church, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

a priest for 59.7 years
a bishop for 29.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales †
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Nivaldo Monte †
Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Bishop Manuel Tavares de Araújo †
Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 João Nílton dos Santos Souza (1986)
Archbishop Matias Patrício de Macêdo (1990)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jairo Rui Matos da Silva † (1974)
Bishop Cristiano Jakob Krapf (1979)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Ordained Bishop	St. Pierre de Alecrim, Church, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 10, Number 504

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