Bishop Héctor Epalza Quintero, P.S.S. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Buenaventura, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Jun 1940		Born
14 Jul 1965	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cali, Colombia
30 Jan 1989	48.6	Incardinated	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice
29 Apr 2004	63.8	Appointed	Bishop of Buenaventura, Colombia
16 Jul 2004	64.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Buenaventura, Colombia
30 Jun 2017	77.0	Retired	Bishop of Buenaventura, Colombia
2 Feb 2021	80.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Buenaventura, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Héctor Epalza Quintero
Bishop Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S.
(born 14 Jun 1940, died 2 Feb 2021)
Bishop Emeritus of Buenaventura

Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Convención
Ordained Bishop San Pedro, Cathedral, Cali, Archdiocese of Cali
Death Place Clinica Comfamiliar, Pereira, Diocese of Pereira

a priest for 55.5 years
a bishop for 16.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sàenz †
Archbishop of Bogotá
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S. †
Archbishop of Medellín
Archbishop Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M. †
Archbishop of Cali

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sàenz † (1971)
Archbishop of Bogotá
Archbishop Angelo Palmas † (1964)
Titular Archbishop of Vibiana
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya (2017)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 5648160668019303560001
WikiData: Q1642780

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14,654
r: Bollettino, 30 Jun 2017
d: CB, 2 Feb 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 260, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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