Archbishop José Palmeira Lessa

Archbishop Emeritus of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jan 1942		Born
3 Jul 1968	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
21 Jun 1982	40.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
21 Jun 1982	40.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sita
24 Aug 1982	40.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sita
30 Oct 1987	45.7	Appointed	Bishop of Propriá, Sergipe, Brazil
6 Dec 1996	54.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
26 Aug 1998	56.6	Succeeded	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil
18 Jan 2017	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Aracajú, Sergipe, Brazil

MicroData Summary
José Palmeira Lessa
Archbishop José Palmeira Lessa
(born 18 Jan 1942)
Archbishop Emeritus of Aracajú

Ad Limina - September 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Coruripe, Diocese of Penedo, Alagoas
Ordained Priest São Sebastião, Cathedral, Rio de Janeiro, Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Ordained Bishop Rio de Janeiro, Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Aracajú.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Jaime Cardinal de Barros Câmara †
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Principal Consecrator:
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales †
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Alberto Lopes de Castro Pinto †
Bishop of Guaxupé, Minas Gerais
Bishop Celso José Pinto da Silva †
Bishop of Vitória da Conquista, Bahia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales † (1954)
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
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 José Haring, O.F.M. † (2000)
Bishop Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida (2003)
Bishop Carlos Alberto dos Santos (2005)
Archbishop João José da Costa, O. Carm. (2009)
Bishop José Genivaldo Garcia (2023)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jaime Mota de Farias † (1982)
Bishop Mário Rino Sivieri † (1997)
Bishop Dulcênio Fontes de Matos (2001)
Bishop Henrique Soares da Costa † (2009)
Bishop Valdemir Vicente Andrade Santos (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Coruripe, Diocese of Penedo, Alagoas
Ordained Priest	São Sebastião, Cathedral, Rio de Janeiro, Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Ordained Bishop	Rio de Janeiro, Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1709552

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 18 Jan 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 79, Number 6,421
bpd/opd/c1/loc: CB, 15 Sep 2024

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