Archbishop Emmanuel Felix Soares (de Santa Catarina), O.C.D. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Goa, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Feb 1727		Born
6 Mar 1751	24.0	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Discalced Carmelites
19 Mar 1751	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
1 Jun 1778	51.2	Selected	Bishop of Cochin, India
20 Jul 1778	51.4	Confirmed	Bishop of Cochin, India
13 Sep 1778	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cochin, India
9 Apr 1783	56.1	Selected	Archbishop of Goa, India
18 Jul 1783	56.3	Confirmed	Archbishop of Goa, India
10 Feb 1812	84.9	Died	Archbishop of Goa, India

MicroData Summary
Emmanuel Felix Soares (de Santa Catarina)
Archbishop Emmanuel Felix Soares (de Santa Catarina) O.C.D.
(born 26 Feb 1727, died 10 Feb 1812)
Archbishop of Goa

Event Place
Birth Place Braga

a priest for 60.8 years
a bishop for 33.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio Bonifacio Coelho †
Titular Archbishop of Lacedaemonia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Miguel António Barreto de Meneses †
Bishop of Miranda (do Douro)
Bishop Bartolomeu Manoel Mendes dos Reis †
Bishop Emeritus of Mariana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antonio Bonifacio Coelho † (1770)
Titular Archbishop of Lacedaemonia
Francisco Cardinal de Saldanha da Gama † (1759)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop José Dantas Barbosa † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Lacedaemonia
Tomás Cardinal 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:
Bishop José Marques da Silva, O.C.D. † (1784)
Bishop Maria José a Santo Tomas, O.P. † (1785)
Bishop Manoel de Jesus, O.E.S.A. † (1788)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Manuel Joaquim Da Silva † (1793)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q10324674

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 227, and Page 172
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1778, Number 24

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