Archbishop José Francisco Sanches Alves

Archbishop Emeritus of Évora, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Apr 1941		Born
3 Jul 1966	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Évora, Portugal
7 Mar 1998	56.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa {Lisbon}, Portugal
7 Mar 1998	56.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana
31 May 1998	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana
22 Apr 2004	63.0	Appointed	Bishop of Portalegre-Castelo Branco, Portugal
8 Jan 2008	66.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Évora, Portugal
26 Jun 2018	77.1	Retired	Archbishop of Évora, Portugal

MicroData Summary
José Francisco Sanches Alves
Archbishop José Francisco Sanches Alves
(born 20 Apr 1941)
Archbishop Emeritus of Évora

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lageosa da Raia
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Évora, Archdiocese of Évora

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Évora.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Maurílio Jorge Quintal de Gouveia †
Archbishop of Évora
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Patriarch José da Cruz Policarpo †
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Madureira Dias
Bishop of Faro {Algarve}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Maurílio Jorge Quintal de Gouveia † (1974)
Archbishop of Évora
António Cardinal Ribeiro † (1967)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira † (1928)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † (1915)
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop António José de Souza Barroso † (1891)
Bishop of Porto
José Sebastião (d’Almeida) Cardinal Neto, O.F.M. Disc. † (1880)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
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:
Archbishop Francisco José Villas-Boas Senra de Faria Coelho (2014)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José João dos Santos Marcos (2014)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 309843013
WikiData: Q1709207

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 8 Jan 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,330
r: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2018

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