Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Calcutta, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jan 1926		Born
24 Aug 1948	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
24 Jan 1974	48.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
5 May 1974	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, India
29 Mar 1985	59.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Calcutta, India
5 Apr 1986	60.2	Succeeded	Archbishop of Calcutta, India
2 Apr 2002	76.2	Retired	Archbishop of Calcutta, India
27 Jun 2016	90.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Calcutta, India

MicroData Summary
Henry Sebastian D’Souza
Archbishop Henry Sebastian D’Souza
(born 20 Jan 1926, died 27 Jun 2016)
Archbishop Emeritus of Calcutta

Event Place
Birth Place Igatpuri
Ordained Bishop Most Holy Rosary, Cathedral, Calcutta, Archdiocese of Calcutta

a priest for 67.8 years
a bishop for 42.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Gordon †
Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Lawrence Trevor Picachy, S.J. †
Archbishop of Calcutta
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop of Ranchi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Gordon † (1962)
Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Alphonse Bilung, S.V.D. † (1979)
Bishop Cyprian Monis (1994)
Bishop Stephen Lepcha (1997)
Archbishop Thomas D’Souza (1998)
Bishop Salvadore Lobo (1998)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, S.J. † (1977)
Bishop Julius Marandi (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1607248

Source(s):

d: CB, 27 Jun 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,365

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