Archbishop Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco †

Deceased

Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Feb 1906		Born	La Guayra
22 Dec 1928	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
21 Jun 1937	31.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
21 Jun 1937	31.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Attalea in Pamphylia
12 Dec 1937	31.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Attalea in Pamphylia
12 Nov 1939	33.7	Appointed	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
23 Apr 1952	46.2	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
23 Apr 1952	46.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia
9 Sep 1955	49.6	Succeeded	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
30 Sep 1959	53.6	Died	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

a priest for 30.8 years
a bishop for 21.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luigi Centoz †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Sixto Sosa Díaz †
Bishop Gregorio Adam Dalmau †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco † (1937)
Archbishop Luigi Centoz † (1932)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pedro Pablo Tenreiro Francia †
Archbishop Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel †
Archbishop Juan José Bernal Ortiz †
Archbishop Crisanto Darío Mata Cova †
Bishop José Rincón Bonilla †
Bishop Alejandro Fernández Feo-Tinoco †
Bishop Ramón J. Lizardi †

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