Antonio Ignacio Cardinal Velasco Garcia, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Domenica Mazzarello

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jan 1929		Born	Acarigua
17 Dec 1955	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
23 Oct 1989	60.8	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
23 Oct 1989	60.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Utimmira
6 Jan 1990	61.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Utimmira
27 Jan 1990	61.0	Installed	Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela
27 May 1995	66.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
14 Jul 1995	66.5	Installed	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
21 Feb 2001	72.1	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	72.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria Domenica Mazzarello
6 Jul 2003	74.5	Died	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal

a priest for 47.6 years
a bishop for 13.5 years
a cardinal for 2.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re
Archbishop Miroslav Stefan Marusyn

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Antonio Ignacio Cardinal Velasco Garcia, S.D.B. † (1990)
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla † (1958)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
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 José Angel Divassón Cilveti, S.D.B.
Bishop Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, C.I.M.
Bishop José de la Trinidad Valera Angulo
Bishop Saúl Figueroa Albornoz
Bishop Jesús Tomás Zárraga Colmenares
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B.

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