Archbishop Leobard D’Souza †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jan 1930		Born
22 Dec 1956	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jabalpur, India
12 Nov 1964	34.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Jabalpur, India
12 Nov 1964	34.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Caput Cilla
3 Dec 1964	34.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Caput Cilla
17 Dec 1965	35.9	Succeeded	Bishop of Jabalpur, India
1 Jul 1975	45.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Nagpur, India
17 Jan 1998	67.9	Resigned	Archbishop of Nagpur, India
19 Dec 2005	75.9	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur, India

MicroData Summary
Leobard D’Souza
Archbishop Leobard D’Souza
(born 18 Jan 1930, died 19 Dec 2005)
Archbishop Emeritus of Nagpur

Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Igatpuri
Ordained Bishop Oval Maidan, Bombay, Archdiocese of Bombay
Death Place Nagpur, Archdiocese of Nagpur

a priest for 48.9 years
a bishop for 41.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah †
Archbishop of Cape Coast
Archbishop James William Gleeson †
Titular Archbishop of Aurusuliana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Gerald Almeida (1974)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Sylvester Monteiro † (1994)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop George Marian Anathil, S.V.D. † (1973)
Bishop Théophane Matthew Thannickunnel, O. Praem. † (1977)
Bishop Abraham D. Mattam, C.V. † (1977)
Bishop Januarius Paul Palathuruthy, C.M.I. † (1977)
Bishop Dominic Joseph Abreo † (1978)
Bishop Ignatius D’Cunha † (1989)
Archbishop Joseph Augustine Charanakunnel (1993)
Bishop Edwin Colaço † (1995)
Bishop Gerald Almeida (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1818818

Source(s):

d: CB
c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 183, Necrology (back)
obd: CB, 9 May 2020
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 117

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