Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Amravati, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 May 1915		Born
29 Sep 1944	29.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales d’Annecy
8 May 1955	39.9	Appointed	Bishop of Amravati, India
13 Nov 1955	40.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Amravati, India
1 Apr 1995	79.8	Retired	Bishop of Amravati, India
31 Jul 2011	96.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Amravati, India

MicroData Summary
Joseph Albert Rosario
Bishop Joseph Albert Rosario M.S.F.S.
(born 30 May 1915, died 31 Jul 2011)
Bishop Emeritus of Amravati

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Nagpur

a priest for 66.8 years
a bishop for 55.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. †
Titular Archbishop of Adulis
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph-Alphonse Baud, M.S.F.S. †
Bishop of Visakhapatnam
Archbishop Eugene Louis D’Souza, M.S.F.S. †
Archbishop of Nagpur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (1945)
Titular Archbishop of Adulis
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ignatius Gopu, M.S.F.S. † (1964)
Bishop Matthew Baroi, S.D.B. † (1973)
Bishop Dominic Joseph Abreo † (1978)
Bishop Ignatius D’Cunha † (1989)
Bishop Edwin Colaço † (1995)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1230024

Source(s):

d: CB, 1 Aug 2011
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1955, Number 101

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