Bishop António de Sousa Braga, S.C.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Angra, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Mar 1941		Born
17 May 1970	29.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart
9 Apr 1996	55.0	Appointed	Bishop of Angra, Portugal
30 Jun 1996	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Angra, Portugal
15 Mar 2016	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Angra, Portugal
22 Aug 2022	81.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Angra, Portugal

MicroData Summary for António de Sousa Braga
(VIAF: 306448858; WikiData: Q611636)
Bishop António de Sousa Braga S.C.I. (born 15 Mar 1941, died 22 Aug 2022) Bishop Emeritus of Angra

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Santo Espirito
Ordained Priest Piazza San Pietro, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Santíssimo Salvador da Sé, Cathedral, Angra do Heroismo, Diocese of Angra
Death Place Lisboa, Patriarchate of Lisboa {Lisbon}

a priest for 52.2 years
a bishop for 26.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Aurélio Granada Escudeiro †
Bishop Emeritus of Angra
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop João Alves †
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa †
Bishop Emeritus of Macau

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Aurélio Granada Escudeiro † (1974)
Bishop Emeritus of Angra
António Cardinal Ribeiro † (1967)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira † (1928)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † (1915)
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop António José de Souza Barroso † (1891)
Bishop of Porto
José Sebastião (d’Almeida) Cardinal Neto, O.F.M. Disc. † (1880)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop Gaetano Aloisi Masella † (1877)
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Manuel Neto Quintas, S.C.I. (2000)
Bishop José Alfredo Caires de Nobrega, S.C.I. (2001)
Bishop José Ornelas Carvalho, S.C.I. (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Santo Espirito
Ordained Priest	Piazza San Pietro, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Santíssimo Salvador da Sé, Cathedral, Angra do Heroismo, Diocese of Angra
Death Place	Lisboa, Patriarchate of Lisboa {Lisbon}

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,767
r: Bollettino, 15 Mar 2016
d: CB, 22 Aug 2022

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