Archbishop Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo

Archbishop of Florencia, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jan 1966		Born
16 Nov 1991	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
27 Apr 2013	47.2	Appointed	Bishop of Florencia, Colombia
29 Jun 2013	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Florencia, Colombia
13 Jul 2019	53.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Florencia, Colombia
May 2021²	55.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia
2 Oct 2024	58.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo
Archbishop Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo
(born 21 Jan 1966)
Archbishop of Florencia

Event Place
Birth Place El Santuario, Diocese of Sonsón
Ordained Bishop San Judas Tadeo, Church, El Santuario, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Florencia.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marin
Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
Archbishop of Medellín
Archbishop Flavio Calle Zapata
Archbishop of Ibagué

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Fidel León Cadavid Marin (2001)
Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro
Archbishop Beniamino Stella (1987)
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 William Prieto Daza (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	El Santuario, Diocese of Sonsón
Ordained Bishop	San Judas Tadeo, Church, El Santuario, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q13565277

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 27 Apr 2013
ob/c23: CB, 15 Jun 2013
c4: CB, 18 Jun 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 214, Number 17,806
ab: Bollettino, 13 Jul 2019

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