Bishop João Casimiro Wilk, O.F.M. Conv. †

Deceased

Bishop of Anápolis, Goias, Brazil

Motto: Ut Amor Ametur

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Sep 1951		Born
3 Oct 1974	23.0	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor Conventual
24 Jun 1976	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Conventual
28 Jan 1998	46.3	Appointed	Bishop of Formosa, Goias, Brazil
4 Apr 1998	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Formosa, Goias, Brazil
9 Jun 2004	52.7	Appointed	Bishop of Anápolis, Goias, Brazil
14 Aug 2004	52.9	Installed	Bishop of Anápolis, Goias, Brazil
11 Nov 2025	74.1	Died	Bishop of Anápolis, Goias, Brazil

MicroData Summary
João Casimiro Wilk
Bishop João Casimiro Wilk O.F.M. Conv.
(born 18 Sep 1951, died 11 Nov 2025)
Bishop of Anápolis

Ad Limina - November 2010: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2020: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Seroczyn, Diocese of Pinsk, Belarus
Ordained Bishop Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, Cathedral, Formosa, Diocese of Formosa, Goias
Death Place Ânima Centro Hospitalar, Anápolis, Diocese of Anápolis, Goias

a priest for 49.3 years
a bishop for 27.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
José Freire Cardinal Falcão †
Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Agostinho Stefan Januszewicz, O.F.M. Conv. †
Bishop of Luziânia, Goias
Bishop Marian Błażej Kruszyłowicz, O.F.M. Conv. †
Titular Bishop of Hadrumetum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

José Freire Cardinal Falcão † (1967)
Archbishop of Brasília, Distrito Federal
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop of Fortaleza, Ceara
Archbishop Moisés Sizenando Coelho † (1915)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Archbishop Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894)
Archbishop of Paraíba
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Dilmo Franco de Campos † (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Stanisław Dowlaszewicz Billman, O.F.M. Conv. (2001)
Bishop Paulo Roberto Beloto (2006)
Bishop Janusz Marian Danecki, O.F.M. Conv. † (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Seroczyn, Diocese of Pinsk, Belarus
Ordained Bishop	Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, Cathedral, Formosa, Diocese of Formosa, Goias
Death Place	Ânima Centro Hospitalar, Anápolis, Diocese of Anápolis, Goias

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q141539

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Number 13,263
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 11 Nov 2025

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