Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão | |
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.jpg) Ferrão in 2006 | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Goa and Daman |
| Appointed | 16 January 2004 |
| Predecessor | Raul Nicolau Gonçalves |
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| Ordination | 28 October 1979 |
| Consecration | 10 April 1994 by Raul Nicolau Gonçalves |
| Created cardinal | 27 August 2022 byPope Francis |
| Rank | Cardinal priest |
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| Born | (1953-01-20)20 January 1953 (age 72) |
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| Motto | Tim sogllim ek zaum (Konkani for 'That they may all be one') |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Religious style | Cardinal |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (born 20 January 1953) is anIndian Catholic prelate who has served asArchbishop of Goa and Daman since 2004. He was previously anauxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese from 1993 to 2004. Ferrão was created acardinal byPope Francis in 2022.
Ferrão is the sixth prelate ofGoan origin to attain the rank of cardinal and the first Archbishop of Goa and Daman to be a cardinal since anepiscopal see was established there in 1557.[1][2]
Ferrão was born on 20 January 1953 inMapusa, Goa, to Agostinho Lourenço Tomé Ferrão and Maria Palmira Eugênia Gertrudes da Conceição Nazaré; he is the youngest of their three children.[3][a] After completing the Preparatory Course at the Minor Seminary of Our Lady,Saligao-Pilerne, Goa, he went to study philosophy and theology at thePapal Seminary,Pune. Ferrão was ordained a priest on 28 October 1979.[4] His pastoral assignments were: Parochial Vicar at Salvador do Mundo in 1979 and in Chinchinim from 1981 to 1984; Prefect of Discipline at the Minor Seminary of Our Lady, Saligão-Pilerne, from 1984 to 1986, where he was also Director of the Vocation Commission for Diocesan Clergy.[5]
Ferrão then studied at thePontificia Universitas Urbaniana, obtaining alicentiate degree inBiblical Theology in 1988, and then inBrussels at the International InstituteLumen Vitae, earning alicentiate degree incatechetics andpastoral theology in 1991.[4]
Returning to Goa, he was the first director of the Diocesan Centre for Lay Apostolate from 1991 to 1994.[5] There he launched the publication of booklets of daily scriptural reflections for the faithful:Daily Flash andJivitacho Prokas.[citation needed]
His other assignments included Convenor of the Team for Transfers of Priests from 1992 to 1997; Ecclesiastical Advisor to St. Luke's Medical Guild, Goa, from 1992 to 1994, and Episcopal Vicar for the North Zone of the Archdiocese, from 1993 to 1994.[5]
He is fluent inKonkani,English,Portuguese,Italian,French andGerman.[5]
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Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of Goa andDaman andtitular bishop ofVanariona on 25 January 1994. He received his episcopal consecration on 10 April 1994 from ArchbishopRaul Nicolau Gonçalves in theSe Cathedral inOld Goa, with bishopsAleixo das Neves Dias andFerdinand Joseph Fonseca as co-consecrators.
On 16 January 2004, Pope John Paul named himArchbishop of Goa and Daman with the honorary title ofPatriarch of the East Indies.[6] He was installed as archbishop on 21 March 2004.[7]
On 25 November 2006, theArchdiocese of Goa and Daman was reorganized as ametropolitan archdiocese with a suffragan diocese and no longer directly subject to the Holy See.Pope Benedict XVI named Ferrão its first archbishop.[8]
On 29 May 2022, Pope Francis announced that he planned to make Ferrão a cardinal.[9] On 27 August 2022, Pope Francis made him acardinal priest, assigning him the title ofSanta Maria in Via.[10]
In February 2024, Ferrão was elected President of theFederation of Asian Bishops' Conferences replacing CardinalCharles Maung Bo of Yangon, Myanmar.[11]
On 23 October 2024, theSynod of Bishops elected Ferrão a member of the Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod.[12]
Ferrão participated as acardinal elector in the2025 papal conclave that electedPope Leo XIV.[13]
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