Bishop Antônio Soares Costa †

Deceased

Bishop of Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jun 1930		Born
8 Dec 1955	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
25 Nov 1971	41.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
25 Nov 1971	41.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Synnada in Mauretania
6 Feb 1972	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Synnada in Mauretania
27 Oct 1993	63.3	Appointed	Bishop of Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
7 Jun 2002	71.9	Died	Bishop of Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Antônio Soares Costa
Bishop Antônio Soares Costa
(born 18 Jun 1930, died 7 Jun 2002)
Bishop of Caruaru

Event Place
Birth Place Nova Cruz
Ordained Bishop Palais des Sports, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

a priest for 46.4 years
a bishop for 30.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Nivaldo Monte †
Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manuel Tavares de Araújo †
Bishop of Caicó, Rio Grande do Norte
Bishop Gentil Diniz Barreto †
Bishop of Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Nivaldo Monte † (1963)
Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Bishop Eugênio de Araújo Sales † (1954)
Titular Bishop of Thibica
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:
Archbishop Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu, O.F.M. Cap. (2001)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q9622927

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 19, Number 1,014

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