Bishop Aparecido Donizete de Souza

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil

Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jan 1964		Born
12 Dec 1992	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cornélio Procópio, Parana, Brazil
30 Dec 2015	51.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
30 Dec 2015	51.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor
18 Mar 2016	52.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor
22 Jun 2022	58.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil
7 Jan 2026	61.9	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Cascavel, Parana, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Aparecido Donizete de Souza
Bishop Aparecido Donizete de Souza
(born 13 Jan 1964)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Cascavel

Event Place
Birth Place Primeiro de Maio
Ordained Bishop Cristo Rei, Cathedral, Cornélio Procópio, Diocese of Cornélio Procópio, Parana

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Cascavel.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jaime Spengler, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manoel João Francisco
Bishop of Cornélio Procópio, Parana
Bishop Getúlio Teixeira Guimarães, S.V.D. †
Bishop Emeritus of Cornélio Procópio, Parana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jaime Spengler, O.F.M. (2011)
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri (1992)
Titular Archbishop of Diocletiana
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:
Bishop Darley José Kummer (2019)
Bishop Bertilo João Morsch (2022)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q21884169

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 30 Dec 2015
ob: CB, 30 Dec 2015
c2+: CB, 10 Feb 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 227, Number 18,865
ab: Bollettino, 22 Jun 2022
r: Bollettino, 7 Jan 2026

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