Bishop Leovigildo López Fitoria, C.M.

Bishop Emeritus of Granada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Jun 1927		Born	Boaco
11 Jul 1954	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Mission
7 Jul 1972	45.1	Appointed	Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua
7 Oct 1972	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua
15 Dec 2003	76.5	Retired	Bishop of Granada, Nicaragua

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Granada.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Eduardo Alvarez Ramírez, C.M. †
Bishop Manuel Salazar y Espinoza †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Leovigildo López Fitoria, C.M. (1972)
Lorenzo Cardinal Antonetti (1968)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
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 †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop René Sócrates Sándigo Jiron

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