Diego Cardinal Astorga y Céspedes †

Deceased

Archbishop of Toledo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Oct 1666		Born	Gibraltar
17 Dec 1689	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
30 Mar 1716	49.5	Appointed	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
14 Jun 1716	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Barcelona, Spain
22 Jul 1720	53.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
26 Nov 1727	61.1	Elevated to Cardinal
9 Feb 1734	67.3	Died	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

Consistory - 1727: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1730: Unable to Participate

a priest for 44.1 years
a bishop for 17.7 years
a cardinal for 6.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Luis Antonio Cardinal Belluga y Moncada, C.O. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jerónimo del Valle Ledesma †
Bishop Diego Muñoz Baquerizo †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Diego Cardinal Astorga y Céspedes † (1716)
Luis Antonio Cardinal Belluga y Moncada, C.O. † (1705)
Pedro Cardinal de Salazar Gutiérrez de Toledo, O. de M. † (1681)
Bishop Juan Asensio Barrios, O. de M. † (1670)
Federico Cardinal Borromeo (Jr.) † (1654)
Francesco Cardinal Peretti di Montalto † (1650)
Pope Giovanni Battista Pamphilj † (1626)
Laudivio Cardinal Zacchia † (1605)
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Pope Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) † (1592)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Pope Alessandro Farnese † (1519)
Pope Giovanni de’ Medici † (1513)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansone Riario † (1504)
Pope Giuliano della Rovere † (1481)
Pope Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. Conv. † (1471)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Agustín Rodríguez Delgado †
Archbishop Manuel Isidro Orozco Manrique de Lara †

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 26 Nov 1727

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