Bishop João Nílton dos Santos Souza

Bishop of Amargosa, Baia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1943		Born	Amargosa
20 Dec 1969	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Amargosa, Baia, Brazil
4 Aug 1986	42.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Baia, Brazil
9 Nov 1986	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa, Baia, Brazil
31 Aug 1988	45.0	Appointed	Bishop of Amargosa, Baia, Brazil
30 Oct 1988	45.2	Installed	Bishop of Amargosa, Baia, Brazil

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Amargosa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Floréncio Cicinho (Sisinio) Vieira †
Bishop José Nicomedes Grossi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop João Nílton dos Santos Souza (1986)
Archbishop Alair Vilar Fernandes de Melo † (1970)
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales (1954)
Archbishop José de Medeiros Delgado † (1941)
Archbishop Moisés Ferreira Coelho † (1915)
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 Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Ist. del Prado

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