Bishop Roque Costa Souza

Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Aug 1966		Born
18 Jun 1994	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 May 2012	45.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 May 2012	45.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum
23 Jun 2012	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Castellum Medianum

MicroData Summary
Roque Costa Souza
Bishop Roque Costa Souza
(born 19 Aug 1966)
Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Event Place
Birth Place Rio de Janeiro

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Eugênio Cardinal de Araújo Sales †
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist.
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edney Gouvêa Mattoso
Bishop of Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
Bishop Assis Lopes
Titular Bishop of Zaraï

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist. (1997)
Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Bishop José de Aquino Pereira † (1958)
Bishop Emeritus of Rio Preto, Sao Paulo
Bishop Ruy Serra † (1948)
Bishop of São Carlos, Sao Paulo
Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Zdzisław Stanisław Błaszczyk (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1452471

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 9 May 2012
ob/c2: CB, 9 May 2012
c34: CB, 23 Jun 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 210, Number 17,448

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