Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas

Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1944		Born	Bogotá
29 Nov 1969	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bogotá, Colombia
8 Mar 1996	51.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia
8 Mar 1996	51.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Troyna
13 Apr 1996	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Troyna
16 Jul 2002	57.6	Appointed	Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
3 Jul 2004	59.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
31 May 2007	62.4	Appointed	Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Please contact the Archbishop through the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Aníbal Cardinal Muñoz Duque †
Principal Consecrator:
Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sàenz
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (1996)
Pedro Cardinal Rubiano Sàenz (1971)
Archbishop Angelo Palmas † (1964)
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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