Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias, S.F.X.

Bishop Emeritus of Port Blair, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Aug 1944		Born
21 Dec 1969	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Missionaries of Saint Francis Xavier
22 Jun 1984	39.8	Appointed	Bishop of Port Blair, India
20 Jan 1985	40.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Port Blair, India
6 Jan 2019	74.4	Retired	Bishop of Port Blair, India

MicroData Summary
Aleixo das Neves Dias
Bishop Aleixo das Neves Dias S.F.X.
(born 5 Aug 1944)
Bishop Emeritus of Port Blair

Ad Limina - May 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Calangute
Ordained Bishop Stella Maris, Church, Port Blair, Diocese of Port Blair

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Port Blair.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop of Ranchi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Raul Nicolau Gonsalves †
Archbishop of Goa e Damão
Bishop Joseph Robert Rodericks, S.J. †
Bishop of Jamshedpur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. † (1961)
Archbishop of Ranchi
Pope John XXIII (1925)
(St. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli †)
Giovanni Cardinal Tacci (Porcelli) † (1895)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Amilcare Cardinal Malagola † (1876)
Archbishop of Fermo
Filippo Cardinal de Angelis † (1826)
Archbishop of Fermo
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Visuvasam Selvaraj (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Cardinal Ferrão (1994)
Bishop Simião Purificaçao Fernandes (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2640655

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 93, Number 7,904, Additions/Corrections (front)

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