Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro

Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

Cardinal-Priest of San Domenico di Guzman

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Mar 1938		Born
9 Jul 1961	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Braga, Portugal
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Beneventum
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Bahamas, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Barbados, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Belize, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Dominica, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Grenada, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Jamaica, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Saint Lucia, Antilles
16 Feb 1985	46.8	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago, Antilles
23 Mar 1985	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Beneventum
25 Apr 1987	49.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Antigua and Barbuda, Antilles
21 Aug 1990	52.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
21 Aug 1990	52.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras
12 Apr 1991	53.0	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras
2 Feb 1998	59.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to South Africa
2 Feb 1998	59.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Namibia
2 Feb 1998	59.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Swaziland
7 Mar 1998	59.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Lesotho
1 Mar 2000	61.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Spain
1 Mar 2000	61.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Andorra
3 Jul 2009	71.2	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops
21 Oct 2009	71.5	Appointed	Secretary of the College of Cardinals
5 Jan 2012	73.7	Appointed	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
18 Feb 2012	73.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Domenico di Guzman
18 Feb 2012	73.8	Elevated to Cardinal
22 Apr 2012	74.0	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Domenico di Guzman
21 Sep 2013	75.4	Retired	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
4 Mar 2022	83.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Domenico di Guzman

MicroData Summary
Manuel Monteiro de Castro
Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro
(born 29 Mar 1938)
Major Penitentiary Emeritus of Apostolic Penitentiary

Consistory - February 2012: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Santa Eufémia de Prazins, Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Braga, Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal
Ordained Bishop Sameiro, Basilica, Braga, Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal

Please contact the Cardinal through the Apostolic Penitentiary.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antonio Bento Martins Júnior †
Archbishop of Braga
Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eurico Dias Nogueira †
Archbishop of Braga
Archbishop Júlio Tavares Rebimbas †
Bishop of Porto

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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:
Archbishop Robert Rivas, O.P. (1990)
Archbishop Juan del Río Martín † (2000)
Bishop Casimiro López Llorente (2001)
Bishop Amadeo Rodríguez Magro (2003)
Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes (2004)
Archbishop Vicente Jiménez Zamora (2004)
Archbishop Jaume Pujol Balcells (2004)
Bishop Demetrio Fernández González (2005)
Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge (2005)
Bishop Bernardo Álvarez Afonso (2005)
Bishop José Ignacio Munilla Aguirre (2006)
Archbishop Francisco Cerro Chaves (2007)
Bishop Gerardo Melgar Viciosa (2008)
Bishop Francesc Pardo Artigas † (2008)
Bishop Eusebio Ignacio Hernández Sola, O.A.R. (2011)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Josep Ángel Saiz Meneses (2001)
Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy (2006)
Bishop Alfonso Carrasco Rouco (2008)
Archbishop Mario Iceta Gavicagogeascoa (2008)
Bishop Sebastián Taltavull Anglada (2009)
Bishop José Mazuelos Pérez (2009)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 270534159
WikiData: Q585377

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 3 Jul 2009
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ab: Bollettino, 5 Jan 2012
card: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2012
1p15: Bollettino, 18 Feb 2012
i: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2012
r: Bollettino, 21 Sep 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 90, Number 7,642
cpri: Bollettino, 4 Mar 2022

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