Archbishop João Bosco Oliver de Faria

Archbishop Emeritus of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Oct 1939		Born
3 Jul 1968	28.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5 Aug 1987	47.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais, Brazil
5 Aug 1987	47.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
12 Oct 1987	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
8 Jan 1992	52.1	Appointed	Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
22 Feb 1992	52.3	Installed	Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
30 May 2007	67.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
9 Mar 2016	76.3	Retired	Archbishop of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil

MicroData Summary
João Bosco Oliver de Faria
Archbishop João Bosco Oliver de Faria
(born 30 Oct 1939)
Archbishop Emeritus of Diamantina

Ad Limina - June 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place São João del Rei
Ordained Bishop Municipal, Stadium, Pousa Alegre, Archdiocese of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Diamantina.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José d’Angelo Neto †
Archbishop of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira †
Archbishop of Uberaba, Minas Gerais
Bishop José Lázaro Neves, C.M. †
Bishop Emeritus of Assis, Sao Paulo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José d’Angelo Neto † (1960)
Archbishop of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais
Archbishop Armando Lombardi † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Bishop Valdir Mamede (1988)
Bishop Antônio Carlos Paiva (1999)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop José Moreira de Melo † (1996)
Bishop José Aristeu Vieira (2015)
Bishop Edson José Oriolo dos Santos (2015)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Antônio Carlos Félix (2003)
Bishop Valdir Mamede (2013)
Bishop Antônio Carlos Paiva (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1710132

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 30 May 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,907
r: Bollettino, 9 Mar 2016

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