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Patriarch Matheus de Oliveira Xavier †

Deceased

Archbishop of Goa e Damão, India

Patriarch of East Indies

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Valle de Urra, Diocese of Portalegre, Portugal
Ordained Bishop	Goa, Archdiocese of Goa e Damão

a priest for 47.9 years

Principal Consecrator: Archbishop Antonio Sebastião Valente † Archbishop of Goa e Damão

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Antonio Sebastião Valente † (1881) Archbishop of Goa e Damão Archbishop Gaetano Aloisi Masella † (1877) Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere 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 José Bento Martins Ribeiro † (1909) Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop António Alves Ferreira † (1908) Archbishop Ángel María Pérez y Cecilia, O.C.D. † (1915)

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