Bishop Henry D’Souza

Bishop of Bellary, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Sep 1949		Born
5 May 1976	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mangalore, India
15 Mar 2008	58.5	Appointed	Bishop of Bellary, India
12 Jun 2008	58.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bellary, India
16 Oct 2012	63.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Shimoga, India
7 May 2014	64.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Shimoga, India

MicroData Summary
Henry D’Souza
Bishop Henry D’Souza
(born 9 Sep 1949)
Bishop of Bellary

Ad Limina - September 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kinnigoly

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Bellary.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Oswald Cardinal Gracias
Archbishop of Bombay
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Bernard Blasius Moras
Archbishop of Bangalore
Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza
Bishop of Mangalore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Oswald Cardinal Gracias (1997)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Ivan Cornelius Dias † (1982)
Archbishop of Bombay
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francis Serrao, S.J. (2014)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 33898488
WikiData: Q1606692

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Number 15,759

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