Bishop Benedito Araújo

Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Nov 1963		Born
17 Nov 1991	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil
23 Mar 2011	47.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil
4 Jun 2011	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil
8 Dec 2011	48.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia, Brazil
22 Apr 2015	51.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
13 Dec 2015	52.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Porto Velho, Rondonia, Brazil
7 Nov 2025	61.9	Appointed	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil
17 Jan 2026	62.1	Installed	Bishop of Campo Maior, Piaui, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Benedito Araújo
Bishop Benedito Araújo
(born 21 Nov 1963)
Bishop of Campo Maior

Event Place
Birth Place Paço do Lumiar, Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
Ordained Bishop Multicenter Sebrae, São Luis, Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Campo Maior.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges
Bishop Emeritus of Viana, Maranhão
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop José Belisário da Silva, O.F.M.
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Bishop Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier †
Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, Rondonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Xavier Gilles de Maupeou d’Ableiges (1995)
Bishop Emeritus of Viana, Maranhão
Archbishop Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte † (1971)
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Norbert Hans Christoph Foerster, S.V.D. (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Paço do Lumiar, Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão
Ordained Bishop	Multicenter Sebrae, São Luis, Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q817072

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 23 Mar 2011
ob/c2+: CB, 12 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 206, Number 17,067
s: Bollettino, 9 Dec 2011
ab: CB, 22 Apr 2015
ab: Bollettino, 7 Nov 2025
i: CB, 9 Nov 2025

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