Avelar Cardinal Brandão Vilela †

Deceased

Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jun 1912		Born
27 Oct 1935	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Aracajú, Brazil
13 Jun 1946	34.0	Appointed	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
27 Oct 1946	34.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
5 Nov 1955	43.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
25 Mar 1971	58.7	Appointed	Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
5 Mar 1973	60.7	Elevated to Cardinal
5 Mar 1973	60.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio
19 Dec 1986	74.5	Died	Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Avelar Brandão Vilela
Avelar Cardinal Brandão Vilela
(born 13 Jun 1912, died 19 Dec 1986)
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Consistory - 1973: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Viçosa, Diocese of Alagôas
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Aracajú, Diocese of Aracajú
Death Place Salvador, Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia

a priest for 51.1 years
a bishop for 40.1 years
a cardinal for 13.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop José Tomas Gomes da Silva †
Bishop of Aracajú
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Adalberto Accioli Sobral †
Bishop of Pesqueira, Pernambuco
Archbishop Mário de Miranda Vilas-Boas †
Archbishop of Belém do Pará

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop José Tomas Gomes da Silva † (1911)
Bishop of Aracajú
Bishop Adauto Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894)
Bishop 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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Gilberto Pereira Lopes † (1949)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Cristiano Jakob Krapf (1979)
Bishop Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap. † (1981)
Bishop Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M. † (1982)
Archbishop Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J. † (1984)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Julián Mendoza Guerrero † (1967)
Archbishop Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho † (1970)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Viçosa, Diocese of Alagôas
Ordained Bishop	Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Aracajú, Diocese of Aracajú
Death Place	Salvador, Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia

External Link(s):

VIAF: 88695947
WikiData: Q579254

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1946, Number 89
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 19
c4: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Additions/Corrections (front)
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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