Archbishop Isidore de Souza †

Deceased

Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Apr 1934		Born
8 Jul 1962	28.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cotonou, Benin
17 Jul 1981	47.2	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
8 Dec 1981	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
27 Dec 1990	56.7	Succeeded	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin
13 Mar 1999	64.9	Died	Archbishop of Cotonou, Benin

MicroData Summary for Isidore de Souza
(VIAF: 53420192; WikiData: Q11865106)
Archbishop Isidore de Souza (born 4 Apr 1934, died 13 Mar 1999) Archbishop of Cotonou

Event Place
Birth Place Ouidah
Ordained Bishop Ouidah

a priest for 36.6 years
a bishop for 17.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop of Cotonou
Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Cardinal-Deacon of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Bernard Yago †
Archbishop of Abidjan
Archbishop Christophe Adimou †
Archbishop of Cotonou

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Deacon of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re
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 Guy Armand Romano, C.SS.R. † (1984)
Archbishop Antoine Ganyé (1995)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 71, Number 5,684

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