Bishop Dirceu de Oliveira Medeiros

Bishop of Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Mar 1973		Born
28 Jul 2001	28.3	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
15 Dec 2001	28.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
27 Oct 2021	48.5	Appointed	Bishop of Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil
4 Dec 2021	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil
19 Feb 2022	48.8	Installed	Bishop of Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Dirceu de Oliveira Medeiros
Bishop Dirceu de Oliveira Medeiros
(born 28 Mar 1973)
Bishop of Camaçari

Event Place
Birth Place Barroso, Diocese of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais
Ordained Deacon Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Cathedral Basilica, São João del Rei, Diocese of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais
Ordained Priest Sant’Ana, Church, Barroso, Diocese of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais
Ordained Bishop Nossa Senhora do Pilar, Cathedral Basilica, São João del Rei, Diocese of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Camaçari.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo
Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Eudes Campos do Nascimento
Bishop of São João del Rei, Minas Gerais
Bishop Joel Portella Amado
Titular Bishop of Carmeiano (Cameiano)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo (1998)
Archbishop of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Lucas (Luiz) Cardinal Moreira Neves, O.P. † (1967)
Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi † (1956)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Bishop Paulo de Tarso Campos † (1935)
Bishop of Campinas
Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva † (1904)
Archbishop of São Paulo
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q109279752

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 27 Oct 2021
od/loc/ob/i: CB, 27 Oct 2021
c2+: CB, 25 Nov 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Number 20,822

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