Archbishop Paulinus Costa †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Oct 1936		Born
15 Aug 1962	25.8	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
21 Dec 1963	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
11 Jan 1996	59.2	Appointed	Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
26 Apr 1996	59.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
9 Jul 2005	68.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
22 Oct 2011	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
3 Jan 2015	78.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka, Bangladesh

MicroData Summary
Paulinus Costa
Archbishop Paulinus Costa
(born 19 Oct 1936, died 3 Jan 2015)
Archbishop Emeritus of Dhaka

Ad Limina - June 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Rangamatia
Ordained Deacon Castel Gandolfo, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Rajshahi, Dingaduba

a priest for 51.0 years
a bishop for 18.6 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) Cardinal Agagianian †
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi †
Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Pisidia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Adriano Bernardini †
Titular Archbishop of Falerii
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Michael Rozario †
Archbishop of Dhaka
Bishop Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C.
Bishop of Chittagong

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Adriano Bernardini † (1992)
Titular Archbishop of Falerii
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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:
Archbishop Lawrence Subrata Howlader, C.S.C. (2009)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 167237740
WikiData: Q2063910

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2005
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 214
r: Bollettino, 22 Oct 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 145, Number 12,714
d: CB, 5 Jan 2015
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
od/c01: CB, 31 Jul 2024

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