Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.

Bishop of Santa Ana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1940		Born	Ciudad Delgado
25 Jun 1968	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
5 May 1987	47.2	Appointed	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
25 Jul 1987	47.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
17 Dec 1996	56.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel, El Salvador
10 Apr 1997	57.1	Succeeded	Bishop of San Miguel, El Salvador
12 May 1999	59.2	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Santa Ana.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francesco De Nittis
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B. †
Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1987)
Archbishop Francesco De Nittis (1981)
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
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 †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar, S.D.B.

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