Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India

Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1925		Born
5 Dec 1954	29.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India
28 Mar 1980	54.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
28 Mar 1980	54.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania
29 Jun 1980	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania
2 Dec 2000	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, India
2 Oct 2015	89.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay, India

MicroData Summary for Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca
(WikiData: Q1405447)
Bishop Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca (born 2 Dec 1925, died 2 Oct 2015) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bombay

Event Place
Birth Place Mumbai
Ordained Bishop Our Lady of Victories, Bombay, Archdiocese of Bombay

a priest for 60.8 years
a bishop for 35.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Simon Ignatius Pimenta †
Archbishop of Bombay
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gilbert Blaize Rego †
Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh
Bishop Dominic Joseph Abreo †
Bishop of Aurangabad

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Simon Ignatius Pimenta † (1971)
Archbishop of Bombay
Valerian Cardinal Gracias † (1946)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. † (1937)
Archbishop of Bombay
Archbishop Richard Joseph Downey † (1928)
Archbishop of Liverpool, England
Francis Alphonsus Cardinal Bourne † (1896)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Herbert Alfred Henry Cardinal Vaughan † (1872)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Henry Edward Manning † (1865)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846)
Bishop of Birmingham, England
Bishop John Briggs † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Dragobitia (Drago)
Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824)
Titular Bishop of Europus
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Titular Bishop of Alia
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Centuria
Bishop William Gibson † (1790)
Titular Bishop of Achantus
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Bosco Penha (1987)
Bishop Thomas Dabre (1990)
Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Cardinal Ferrão (1994)
Oswald Cardinal Gracias (1997)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mumbai
Ordained Bishop	Our Lady of Victories, Bombay, Archdiocese of Bombay

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 2 Oct 2015
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 62, Number 4,805

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