Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão (10 November 1922 – 21 February 2012) was a
Portuguese Prelate
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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.
Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão was born in Lisbon, and was ordained a priest on 29 June 1951. Falcão was appointed auxiliary archbishop to the
Archdiocese of Lisbon
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Its archiepiscopal see is the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major, in ...
on 6 December 1966, as well as titular bishop of Thelepte, and ordained bishop on 22 January 1967. Falcão was appointed bishop of the
Diocese of Beja on 8 September 1980 and would remain in the post until his retirement on 25 January 1999.
See also
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Diocese of Beja
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Archdiocese of Lisbon
The Metropolitan Patriarchate of Lisbon () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or patriarchal archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
Its archiepiscopal see is the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major, in ...
External links
Catholic-Hierarchy Beja Diocese
(Portuguese)
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Portugal
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Portugal
20th-century Roman Catholic titular bishops
1922 births
2012 deaths
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