Filipe Neri Ferrão
The Most Reverend Filipe Neri Ferrão | |
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Archbishop of Goa and Daman Patriarch of the East Indies | |
See | Goa and Daman |
Appointed | 21 March 2003 |
Predecessor | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves |
Other posts | 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 |
Aldona, Goa, Portuguese India | 20 January 1953
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Residence | India |
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Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (born 20 January 1953) is the seventh Roman Catholic Patriarch of the East Indies and thirty-fifth Archbishop (thirty-seventh bishop) of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, India.
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. 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.