Bishop Óscar Álvarez Orellana

Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador

Titular Bishop of Pudentiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Sep 1962		Born
6 Jan 1988	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Salvador, El Salvador
16 Dec 2023	61.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
16 Dec 2023	61.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana
13 Jan 2024	61.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana

MicroData Summary
Óscar Álvarez Orellana
Bishop Óscar Álvarez Orellana
(born 7 Sep 1962)
Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador

Event Place
Birth Place Villa El Rosario, Morazán, Diocese of San Miguel
Ordained Bishop San Salvador, Cathedral, San Salvador, Archdiocese of San Salvador

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of San Salvador.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas
Archbishop of San Salvador
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luigi Roberto Cona
Titular Archbishop of Oppidum Consilinum
Gregorio Cardinal Rosa Chávez
Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Sacramento a Tor de’ Schiavi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas (2002)
Archbishop of San Salvador
Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo † (1982)
Bishop of San Vicente
Bishop Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B. † (1946)
Bishop of San Vicente
Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. † (1929)
Titular Archbishop of Perge
Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti † (1914)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q123859854

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Dec 2023
ob/c2: CB, 28 Dec 2023
c34: CB, 13 Jan 2024
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 259, Number 21,381

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