Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Oct 1925		Born
10 Apr 1950	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ponce, Puerto Rico
4 Nov 1964	39.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
21 Dec 1964	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
10 Nov 2000	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
26 Jan 2012	86.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico

MicroData Summary
Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver
(born 28 Oct 1925, died 26 Jan 2012)
Bishop Emeritus of Ponce

Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place San Germán, Diocese of Ponce
Ordained Bishop Maria Reina, Church, Ponce, Diocese of Ponce

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 47.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luis Aponte Martínez †
Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Bishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C. †
Bishop of Arecibo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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 Ricardo Antonio Suriñach Carreras † (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas † (1976)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 60596268
WikiData: Q1710475

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
d: CB, 26 Jan 2012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 122

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