Archbishop José Roberto Fortes Palau

Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Apr 1965		Born
6 Feb 1993	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
30 Apr 2014	49.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil
30 Apr 2014	49.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Acufida
21 Jun 2014	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Acufida
20 Nov 2019	54.6	Appointed	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
18 Jan 2020	54.7	Installed	Bishop of Limeira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8 Jan 2026	60.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil
28 Feb 2026	60.8	Installed	Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

MicroData Summary
José Roberto Fortes Palau
Archbishop José Roberto Fortes Palau
(born 9 Apr 1965)
Archbishop of Sorocaba

Event Place
Birth Place Jacareí
Ordained Bishop Coração de Maria, Church, São José dos Campos, Diocese of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Sorocaba.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Odilo Pedro Cardinal Scherer
Archbishop of São Paulo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa
Archbishop of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul
Archbishop Moacir Silva
Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Odilo Pedro Cardinal Scherer (2002)
Archbishop of São Paulo
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Jacareí
Ordained Bishop	Coração de Maria, Church, São José dos Campos, Diocese of São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q16739428

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 30 Apr 2014
ob: CB, 30 Apr 2014
c2: CB, 14 May 2014
c34: CB, 4 Jun 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 218, Number 18,186
ab: Bollettino, 20 Nov 2019
i: CB, 20 Nov 2019
ab: Bollettino, 8 Jan 2026
i: CB, 13 Jan 2026

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