Bishop Amândio José Tomás

Bishop Emeritus of Vila Real, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Apr 1943		Born
15 Aug 1967	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vila Real, Portugal
5 Oct 2001	58.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Évora, Portugal
5 Oct 2001	58.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
6 Jan 2002	58.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Feradi Maius
8 Jan 2008	64.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Vila Real, Portugal
17 May 2011	68.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Vila Real, Portugal
11 May 2019	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Vila Real, Portugal

MicroData Summary
Amândio José Tomás
Bishop Amândio José Tomás
(born 23 Apr 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Vila Real

Ad Limina - November 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Cimo da Vila da Castanheira
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Vila Real.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leonardo Sandri
Titular Archbishop of Aemona
Archbishop Robert Sarah
Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 98584832
WikiData: Q482145

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 8 Jan 2008
s: Bollettino, 17 May 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 165, Number 14,102
r: Bollettino, 11 May 2019

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