Bishop Renato Ascencio León †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 May 1939		Born
12 Jun 1965	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
19 Jul 1988	49.1	Appointed	Prelate of Madera, Chihuahua, México
30 Aug 1988	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Madera, Chihuahua, México
7 Oct 1994	55.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
20 Dec 2014	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México
27 Jun 2022	83.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México

MicroData Summary
Renato Ascencio León
Bishop Renato Ascencio León
(born 11 May 1939, died 27 Jun 2022)
Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Juárez

Ad Limina - September 2005: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place León, Diocese of León, Guanajuato
Ordained Bishop Ciudad Madera, Territorial Prelature of Madera, Chihuahua
Death Place León, Archdiocese of León, Guanajuato

a priest for 57.0 years
a bishop for 33.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anselmo Zarza Bernal †
Bishop of León, Guanajuato
Bishop José Ulises Macías Salcedo †
Bishop of Mexicali, Baja California Norte

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerardo de Jesús Rojas López (2004)
Bishop José Guadalupe Torres Campos (2006)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Juan Guillermo López Soto † (1995)
Bishop Juan Frausto Pallares (2006)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2143566

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115, Number 10,237
r: Bollettino, 20 Dec 2014
d: CB, 27 Jun 2022

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