Bishop Edilson Soares Nobre

Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 May 1965		Born
6 Apr 1991	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
11 Jan 2017	51.6	Appointed	Bishop of Oeiras, Piaui, Brazil
20 Mar 2017	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Oeiras, Piaui, Brazil
1 Apr 2017	51.8	Installed	Bishop of Oeiras, Piaui, Brazil
13 May 2026	61.0	Appointed	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil
4 Jul 2026	61.1	Installed	Bishop of Guarabira, Paraiba, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Edilson Soares Nobre
Bishop Edilson Soares Nobre
(born 9 May 1965)
Bishop of Guarabira

Event Place
Birth Place Touros, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Guarabira.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jaime Vieira Rocha
Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Heitor de Araújo Sales
Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Archbishop Matias Patrício de Macêdo
Archbishop Emeritus of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jaime Vieira Rocha (1996)
Archbishop of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Touros, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Natal, Archdiocese of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q28194141

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 11 Jan 2017
ob: CB, 11 Jan 2017
c2+: CB, 15 Feb 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Number 19,351
ab: Bollettino, 13 May 2026
i: CB, 15 May 2026

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