Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero

Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín

Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Nov 1968		Born	El Retiro
1 Jul 1993	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
28 May 2012	43.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín, Colombia
28 May 2012	43.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia
4 Aug 2012	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia

Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Medellín.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta
Archbishop Flavio Calle Zapata

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero (2012)
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (2003)
Archbishop Beniamino Stella (1987)
Pope Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła † (1958)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 May 2012
ob: CB, 28 May 2012
c2+: CB, 2 Aug 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Number 17,521

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