Bishop Pompeu Bezerra Bessa †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Nov 1923		Born
11 Dec 1949	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
25 Jan 1973	49.1	Appointed	Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
1 May 1973	49.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
18 May 1994	70.5	Resigned	Bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil
23 Jul 2000	76.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara, Brazil

MicroData Summary for Pompeu Bezerra Bessa
(WikiData: Q37517179)
Bishop Pompeu Bezerra Bessa (born 18 Nov 1923, died 23 Jul 2000) Bishop Emeritus of Limoeiro do Norte

Event Place
Birth Place Alto Santo
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Limoeiro do Norte, Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara

a priest for 50.6 years
a bishop for 27.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José Freire Falcão †
Archbishop of Teresina, Piaui
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Mauro Ramalho de Alarcón Santiago †
Bishop of Iguatu, Ceara
Bishop Afonso de Oliveira Lima, S.D.S. †
Bishop of Brejo, Maranhão

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Freire Falcão † (1967)
Archbishop of Teresina, Piaui
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Alto Santo
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Limoeiro do Norte, Diocese of Limoeiro do Norte, Ceara

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 21, Number 1,174
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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