Bishop António Maria Bessa Taipa

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Porto, Portugal

Titular Bishop of Tabbora

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Nov 1942		Born
15 Aug 1966	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto, Portugal
22 Feb 1999	56.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal
22 Feb 1999	56.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tabbora
18 Apr 1999	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tabbora
27 Oct 2018	75.9	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto, Portugal

MicroData Summary
António Maria Bessa Taipa
Bishop António Maria Bessa Taipa
(born 11 Nov 1942)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Porto

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

Event Place
Birth Place Freamunde (Paços de Ferreira)
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Porto, Diocese of Porto

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Porto.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho †
Bishop of Porto
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Júlio Tavares Rebimbas †
Bishop Emeritus of Porto
Bishop João Miranda Teixeira
Titular Bishop of Castellum Iabar

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Armindo Lopes Coelho † (1979)
Bishop of Porto
Bishop António Ferreira Gomes † (1948)
Bishop of Porto
Bishop Agostinho de Jesus e Souza † (1921)
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop Manuel Vieira de Matos † (1899)
Archbishop of Braga
Bishop José Dias Correia de Carvalho † (1871)
Bishop of Viseu
Bishop José Luis Alves Feijo, O.SS.T. † (1865)
Bishop of Bragança e Miranda
Archbishop Innocenzo Ferrieri † (1847)
Titular Archbishop of Side
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 António Augusto de Oliveira Azevedo (2016)
Bishop Vitorino José Pereira Soares (2019)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 99550940
WikiData: Q164407

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Number 13,501
r: Bollettino, 27 Oct 2018

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