Bishop José Câmnate na Bissign

Bishop Emeritus of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1953		Born
31 Dec 1982	29.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
15 Oct 1999	46.3	Appointed	Bishop of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
12 Feb 2000	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
11 Jul 2020	67.1	Resigned	Bishop of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

MicroData Summary
José Câmnate na Bissign
Bishop José Câmnate na Bissign
(born 28 May 1953)
Bishop Emeritus of Bissau

Ad Limina - February 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mansoa
Ordained Bishop Open Air, near, Cathedral, Bissau, Diocese of Bissau

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Bissau.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel
Titular Archbishop of Calatia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paulino do Livramento Évora, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde
Bishop Pierre Sagna, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jean-Paul Aimé Gobel (1994)
Titular Archbishop of Calatia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 José Lampra Cà (2011)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pedro Carlos Zilli, P.I.M.E. † (2001)
Arlindo Cardinal Gomes Furtado (2004)
Bishop Víctor Luís Quematcha, O.F.M. (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1709135

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Number 13,696
r: Bollettino, 11 Jul 2020

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