Bishop Germano Grachane, C.M.

Bishop Emeritus of Nacala, Mozambique

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 May 1942		Born
24 May 1970	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Mission
22 Jan 1990	47.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Nampula, Mozambique
22 Jan 1990	47.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thunusuda
3 Jun 1990	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thunusuda
11 Oct 1991	49.4	Appointed	Bishop of Nacala, Mozambique
25 Apr 2018	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Nacala, Mozambique
13 Jun 2019	77.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Gurué, Mozambique
21 Mar 2021	78.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Gurué, Mozambique

MicroData Summary for Germano Grachane
(VIAF: 161944439; WikiData: Q1279833)
Bishop Germano Grachane C.M. (born 4 May 1942) Bishop Emeritus of Nacala

Ad Limina - May 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Zandamela
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame de Fatima, Cathedral, Nampula, Archdiocese of Nampula

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Nacala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto †
Archbishop of Nampula
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paulo Mandlate, S.S.S. †
Bishop of Tete
Bishop Júlio Duarte Langa
Bishop of Xai-Xai

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Manuel da Silva Vieira Pinto † (1967)
Archbishop of Nampula
Maximilien Cardinal de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Atanasio Amisse Canira (2015)
Bishop Inácio Lucas Mwita (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alberto Vera Aréjula, O. de M. (2015)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 128, Number 11,536
r: Bollettino, 25 Apr 2018
ab: CB, 15 Jul 2019

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