Avelar Cardinal Brandão Vilela †

Deceased

Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jun 1912		Born	Viçosa
27 Oct 1935	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Aracajú, Brazil
13 Jun 1946	34.0	Appointed	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
27 Oct 1946	34.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil
5 Nov 1955	43.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
25 Mar 1971	58.8	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 Ss. Bonifacio ed Alessio
19 Dec 1986	74.5	Died	Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Consistory - 1973: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

a priest for 51.1 years
a bishop for 40.1 years
a cardinal for 13.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop José Tomas Gomes da Silva †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Adalberto Accioli Sobral †
Archbishop Mário de Miranda Villas-Boas †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Avelar Cardinal Brandão Vilela † (1946)
Bishop José Tomas Gomes da Silva † (1911)
Archbishop Adauctus Aurélio de Miranda Henriques † (1894)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Cristiano Jakob Krapf
Bishop Ângelo Domingos Salvador, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop Carlos José Boaventura Kloppenburg, O.F.M.
Archbishop Aloysio José Leal Penna, S.J.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Julián Mendoza Guerrero †
Archbishop Miguel Fenelon Câmara Filho

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