Bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jul 1930		Born
25 Feb 1956	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
19 Nov 1983	53.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
19 Nov 1983	53.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena
25 Feb 1984	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Iunca in Byzacena
10 Nov 1999	69.2	Appointed	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
16 Jan 2000	69.4	Installed	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
15 Nov 2006	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
20 Jan 2026	95.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Osório, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Thadeu Gomes Canellas
Bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas
(born 28 Jul 1930, died 20 Jan 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Osório

Event Place
Birth Place Gravataí, Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Porto Alegre, Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Death Place Gravataí, Archdiocese of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul

a priest for 69.9 years
a bishop for 41.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop João Cláudio Colling †
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Alfredo Vicente Cardinal Scherer †
Archbishop Emeritus of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Bishop Edmundo Luís Kunz †
Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop João Cláudio Colling † (1950)
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Jailton de Oliveira Lino, P.S.D.P. (1988)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jaime Pedro Kohl, P.S.D.P. (2007)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Adélio Giuseppe (José) Tomasin, P.S.D.P. † (1988)
Bishop José Clemente Weber (1994)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1684667

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 15 Nov 2006
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 87, Number 7,303
d: CB, 20 Jan 2026

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