Bishop Leonardo de Miranda Pereira

Bishop Emeritus of Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 May 1936		Born
8 Dec 1959	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6 May 1986	49.9	Appointed	Bishop of Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9 Aug 1986	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil
7 Nov 2012	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Paracatu, Minas Gerais, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Leonardo de Miranda Pereira
Bishop Leonardo de Miranda Pereira
(born 31 May 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Paracatu

Ad Limina - June 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Diamantina, Archdiocese of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Ordained Bishop Guanhães, Diocese of Guanhães, Minas Gerais

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Paracatu.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop José Newton de Almeida Baptista †
Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Geraldo Majela Reis †
Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Serafim Fernandes de Araújo †
Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Bishop Antônio Felippe da Cunha, S.D.N. †
Bishop of Guanhães, Minas Gerais

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Geraldo Majela Reis † (1978)
Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais
Archbishop Oscar de Oliveira † (1954)
Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais
Archbishop Helvécio Gomes de Oliveira, S.D.B. † (1918)
Archbishop of Mariana, Minas Gerais
Archbishop Angelo Giacinto Scapardini, O.P. † (1909)
Titular Archbishop of Damascus
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Benedito Gonçalves dos Santos (2008)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1819129

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,244
r: Bollettino, 7 Nov 2012
c1: Website of the Diocese, 27 Sep 2013

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