Filipe Neri Ferrão

His Grace, the Most Reverend

Filipe Neri Ferrão
His Grace, the Most Reverend; Filipe Neri Ferrão
Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman; Patriarch of the East Indies
	Archbishop Neri in 2017
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Goa and Daman
See	Goa and Daman
Appointed	21 March 2003
Predecessor	Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
Other post(s)	Patriarch of the East Indies
Orders
Ordination	28 October 1979
Consecration	10 April 1994; by Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
Personal details
Birth name	Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão
Born	20 January 1953 (age 68); Aldona, Goa, Portuguese India
Denomination	Roman Catholicism
Residence	India
Previous post(s)	Auxiliary Bishop of Goa and Daman (1994-2003); Titular Bishop of Vanariona (1994-2003);
Motto	TIM SOGLLIM EK ZAUM ; (That They May All Be One)

Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (born 20 January 1953), an Indian prelate, is the seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies and thirty-fifth Metropolitan Archbishop (thirty-seventh bishop) of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, India.

Studies, languages known[]

He began his religious studies in ^[1] in Saligao and then went to the Papal Seminary in Pune. He graduated in philosophy and theology and is fluent in Konkani, English, Portuguese, Italian, French and German.

Clerical life[]

Rosário Ferrão was ordained priest on 28 October 1979. He was created Auxiliary Bishop of Goa and Daman and titular bishop of Vanariona on 20 December 1993. He was consecrated by Patriarch Raul Nicolau Gonçalves at the Se Cathedral in Old Goa, with Aleixo das Neves Dias, SFX and Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca co-consecrating. On 12 December 2003 he was created Archbishop of Goa and Daman and Patriarch of the East Indies by Pope John Paul II, upon the resignation of the sixth Patriarch, Raul Nicolau Gonçalves.

His appointment on 12 December 2003 as Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Goa and Daman came from Pope John Paul II, after the resignation of Archbishop Raul Nicolau Gonçalves, as Archbishop of Goa and Daman (and therefore Patriarch of the East Indies, India and Primate Archbishop Cranganore holder), and was given the solemn entry on 21 March 2004. On 25 November 2006, he was appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman, by Pope Benedict XVI. The main co-consecrating bishops were Anthony Alwyn Fernandes Barreto (Sindhudurg), Peter Machado (Belgaum), Dominic Savio Fernandes and John Rodrigues (Bombay auxiliary bishops).

References[]

^ http://www.saligaoseminary.org/

Cheney, David M. "Archbishop Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 16 June 2018.^{self-published}

External links[]

"Archbishop Patriarch". Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017. Check |archive-url= value (help)

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