Archbishop Inácio (de Santa Teresa) Torres de Souza, O.E.S.A. †

Deceased

Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Nov 1682		Born
14 Aug 1698	15.7	Professed	Member of Order of Hermits of St. Augustine
3 Feb 1721	38.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Goa, India
30 Mar 1721	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Goa, India
22 Feb 1739	56.2	Selected	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
19 Dec 1740	58.0	Confirmed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
19 Nov 1741	58.9	Installed	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal
15 Apr 1751	68.3	Died	Bishop of Faro {Algarve}, Portugal

MicroData Summary
Inácio (de Santa Teresa) Torres de Souza
Archbishop Inácio (de Santa Teresa) Torres de Souza O.E.S.A.
(born 22 Nov 1682, died 15 Apr 1751)
Bishop of Faro {Algarve}

Event Place
Birth Place Porto

a bishop for 30.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Patriarch Tomás de Almeida †
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manuel Álvares da Costa †
Bishop of Angra
Bishop Bartolomeu do Pilar, O. Carm. †
Bishop of Belém do Pará

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Patriarch Tomás de Almeida † (1707)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706)
Titular Bishop of Targa
Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694)
Bishop of Leiria
Bishop João de Sousa † (1684)
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop Veríssimo de Lencastre † (1671)
Archbishop Emeritus of Braga
Bishop Francesco Ravizza † (1667)
Titular Bishop of Sidon
Neri Cardinal Corsini † (1652)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Fabio Cardinal Chigi † (1635)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop of Malta
Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Antonio Pimentel, S.J. † (1721)
Bishop Francisco da Purificação da Rocha Froes, O.E.S.A. † (1725)
Bishop José Pinheiro, S.J. † (1726)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 100037431
WikiData: Q10303378

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 211
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 335
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1721, Number 11
ln: CB, 27 Sep 2015
b: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Additions/Corrections (front)

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