Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar, S.D.B.

Bishop of Zacatecoluca

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Feb 1951		Born	Cutumay
27 Oct 1979	28.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
27 Feb 1998	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
25 Mar 1998	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Zacatecoluca.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo, S.D.B.
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle
Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar, S.D.B. (1998)
Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo, S.D.B. (1968)
Bishop Marco Antonio García y Suárez † (1953)
Archbishop Antonio Taffi † (1947)
Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella † (1919)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (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 Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez, C.R.S.

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Number 13,259

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