Octavio Antonio Cardinal Beras Rojas †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo

Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Nov 1906		Born	Seibo
13 Aug 1933	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2 May 1945	38.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2 May 1945	38.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Euchaitae
12 Aug 1945	38.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Euchaitae
10 Dec 1961	55.1	Succeeded	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
8 Dec 1962	56.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
24 May 1976	69.5	Elevated to Cardinal
24 May 1976	69.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto
15 Nov 1981	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
4 Apr 1982	75.4	Retired	Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
30 Nov 1990	84.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Consistory - 1976: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

a priest for 57.3 years
a bishop for 45.3 years
a cardinal for 14.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt †
Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Enrique Pérez Serantes †
Bishop of Camagüey
Bishop Aloysius Joseph Willinger, C.SS.R. †
Bishop of Ponce

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt † (1942)
Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
Archbishop George Joseph (Jorge José) Caruana † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Sebastea
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}
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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Juan Félix Pepén y Soliman † (1959)
Bishop Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez † (1966)
Bishop Príamo Pericles Tejeda Rosario (1975)
Bishop Ronald Gerard Connors, C.SS.R. † (1976)
Bishop Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, S.D.B. (1976)
Bishop Jesús María de Jesús Moya (1977)
Nicolás de Jesús Cardinal López Rodríguez (1978)
Bishop Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera † (1978)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Hugo Eduardo Polanco Brito † (1954)
Bishop Tomás Francisco Reilly, C.SS.R. † (1956)
Bishop Francisco Panal Ramírez, O.F.M. Cap. † (1956)

Source(s):

ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 124
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125
ob/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Additions/Corrections (front)
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1945, Number 40
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church