Archbishop Luis Madrid Merlano

Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Oct 1946		Born
29 Jun 1971	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Istmina, Colombia
21 May 1988	41.5	Appointed	Prelate of Tibú, Colombia
3 Jul 1988	41.6	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Tibú, Colombia
31 Jul 1988	41.7	Installed	Prelate of Tibú, Colombia
19 Apr 1995	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Cartago, Colombia
30 Mar 2010	63.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
22 May 2010	63.5	Installed	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
6 Jun 2018	71.6	Resigned	Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Luis Madrid Merlano
Archbishop Luis Madrid Merlano
(born 27 Oct 1946)
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Pamplona

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Cartagena, Diocese of Cali
Ordained Bishop Santo Domingo, Convent, Bogota

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gustavo Posada Peláez, M.X.Y. †
Titular Bishop of Zaliche
Archbishop Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira
Archbishop of Cartagena

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (1974)
Titular Archbishop of Zella
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa (2012)
Bishop Jaime Cristóbal Abril González (2016)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Jorge Alberto Ossa Soto (2003)
Bishop Jaime Muñoz Pedroza (2010)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1674443

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 30 Mar 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,917
r: Bollettino, 6 Jun 2018
i: CB, 27 Apr 2022

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