Bishop António José da Rocha Couto, S.M.P.

Bishop of Lamego, Portugal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Apr 1952		Born
1 Aug 1971	19.2	Professed	Member of Missionários da Boa Nova
13 Jun 1980	28.1	Perpetual Vows	Member of Missionários da Boa Nova
3 Dec 1980	28.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionários da Boa Nova
6 Jul 2007	55.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Braga, Portugal
6 Jul 2007	55.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Azura
23 Sep 2007	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Azura
19 Nov 2011	59.5	Appointed	Bishop of Lamego, Portugal
29 Jan 2012	59.7	Installed	Bishop of Lamego, Portugal

MicroData Summary
António José da Rocha Couto
Bishop António José da Rocha Couto S.M.P.
(born 18 Apr 1952)
Bishop of Lamego

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

Event Place
Birth Place Vila Boa do Bispo, Diocese of Porto
Ordained Bishop Pavillon du Clube Desportivo, Cucujães

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Lamego.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga
Archbishop of Braga
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente
Bishop of Porto
Bishop António Augusto dos Santos Marto
Bishop of Leiria-Fátima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga (1988)
Archbishop of Braga
Archbishop Eurico Dias Nogueira † (1964)
Archbishop of Braga
Archbishop Ernesto Sena de Oliveira † (1931)
Bishop of Coimbra
Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira † (1928)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Manuel Luís Coelho da Silva † (1915)
Bishop of Coimbra
Bishop António José de Souza Barroso † (1891)
Bishop of Porto
José Sebastião (d’Almeida) Cardinal Neto, O.F.M. Disc. † (1880)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Archbishop Gaetano Aloisi Masella † (1877)
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Joaquim Proença Dionísio (2023)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 12042782
WikiData: Q611006

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2007
ob: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 190, Number 15,519
i: CB, 19 Nov 2011
prof/perp: CB, 29 Mar 2025

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