Filipe Neri Ferrão

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.

His Beatitude

Filipe Neri Ferrão
Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman
Patriarch of the East Indies
Primate of the East
Archbishop Neri in 2017
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Goa and Daman
SeeGoa and Daman
Appointed21 March 2003
PredecessorRaul Nicolau Gonçalves
Other post(s)Patriarch of the East Indies
Primate of the East
Titular Archbishop of Cranganore
Orders
Ordination28 October 1979
Consecration10 April 1994
by Raul Nicolau Gonçalves
Personal details
Born
Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão

(1953-01-20) 20 January 1953
Aldona, Goa, Portuguese India
DenominationRoman Catholicism
ResidenceIndia
Previous post(s)
  • Auxiliary Bishop of Goa and Daman (1994–2003)
  • Titular Bishop of Vanariona (1994–2003)
MottoTIM SOGLLIM EK ZAUM
(That They May All Be One)

Studies, languages known

He began his religious studies in Seminary of Our Lady[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 a priest on 28 October 1979. He was consecrated 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 and Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca co-consecrating.

On 12 December 2003 he was consecrated Archbishop of Goa and Daman, Patriarch of the East Indies, and Titular Archbishop of Cranganore by Pope John Paul II, upon the resignation of Gonçalves. It was then 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
  1. "Seminary Of Our Lady, Saligao-Pilerne".
  • "Archbishop Patriarch". Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. 2017. Retrieved April 27, 2017. {{cite web}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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