Bishop Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D.

Bishop of Tumaco

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1940		Born	Medellín
2 Dec 1967	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
8 Feb 1990	49.7	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Tumaco, Colombia
8 Feb 1990	49.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bisica
22 Apr 1990	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bisica
29 Oct 1999	59.4	Appointed	Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tumaco.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Miguel Angel Lecumberri Erburu, O.C.D. †
Archbishop Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D. (1990)
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (1974)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 †

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