Bishop Basil Salvadore D’Souza †

Deceased

Bishop of Mangalore, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 May 1926		Born
25 Mar 1952	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mangalore, India
22 Mar 1965	38.8	Appointed	Bishop of Mangalore, India
11 May 1965	38.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mangalore, India
5 Sep 1996	70.2	Died	Bishop of Mangalore, India

MicroData Summary
Basil Salvadore D’Souza
Bishop Basil Salvadore D’Souza
(born 23 May 1926, died 5 Sep 1996)
Bishop of Mangalore

Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Bondel, Diocese of Mangalore
Ordained Bishop Notre Dame du Rosaire, Cathedral, Mangalore, Diocese of Mangalore

a priest for 44.4 years
a bishop for 31.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Albert Vincent D’Souza †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Bishop Alphonsus Mathias †
Bishop of Chikmagalur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
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:
Bishop Aloysius Paul D’Souza (1996)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Winnibald Joseph Menezes † (1968)
Bishop John Baptist Sequeira † (1987)
Bishop Joseph D’Silva † (1993)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1967213

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1965, Number 32

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