Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan

Apostolic Administrator of São João Maria Vianney, Rio de Janeiro

Titular Bishop of Cedamusa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Oct 1950		Born	São Fidelis
8 Dec 1974	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28 Jun 2002	51.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Apostolic Administrator of São João Maria Vianney, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
28 Jun 2002	51.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cedamusa
18 Aug 2002	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cedamusa
16 Dec 2002	52.1	Succeeded	Apostolic Administrator of São João Maria Vianney, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ad Limina - September 2010: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Apostolic Administration of São João Maria Vianney.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alano Maria Pena, O.P.
Bishop Licínio Rangel, O.V.S. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Fernando Arêas Rifan (2002)
Darío Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos (1971)
Archbishop Angelo Palmas † (1964)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (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 †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,239

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