Bishop José Moreira de Melo †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Aug 1941		Born
27 Jan 1968	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
17 Jan 1996	54.4	Appointed	Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Mar 1996	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
19 Oct 2016	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 Oct 2025	84.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Itapeva, Sao Paulo, Brazil

MicroData Summary
José Moreira de Melo
Bishop José Moreira de Melo
(born 3 Aug 1941, died 25 Oct 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Itapeva

Ad Limina - November 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Serra do Salitre, Diocese of Uberaba
Ordained Bishop Parque de Exposições, Patos de Minas, Diocese of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais
Death Place Santa Casa, Hospital, Itapeva, Diocese of Itapeva, Sao Paulo

a priest for 57.7 years
a bishop for 29.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop João Bosco Oliver de Faria
Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira †
Archbishop Emeritus of Uberaba, Minas Gerais
Archbishop José Lambert Filho, C.S.S. †
Archbishop of Sorocaba, Sao Paulo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop João Bosco Oliver de Faria (1987)
Bishop of Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais
Archbishop José d’Angelo Neto † (1960)
Archbishop of Pouso Alegre, Minas Gerais
Archbishop Armando Lombardi † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
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 Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto (2016)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1626390

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,699
r: Bollettino, 19 Oct 2016
d: CB, 26 Oct 2025

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