Francisco Cardinal Alvarez Martínez †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria “Regina Pacis” a Monte Verde

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Jul 1925		Born
11 Jun 1950	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oviedo, Spain
13 Apr 1973	47.7	Appointed	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
3 Jun 1973	47.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
20 Dec 1976	51.4	Appointed	Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño, Spain
12 May 1989	63.8	Appointed	Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain
23 Jun 1995	69.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
21 Feb 2001	75.6	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	75.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria “Regina Pacis” a Monte Verde
24 Oct 2002	77.2	Retired	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
5 Jan 2022	96.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain

MicroData Summary
Francisco Alvarez Martínez
Francisco Cardinal Alvarez Martínez
(born 14 Jul 1925, died 5 Jan 2022)
Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Santa Eulalia de Ferroñes Llanera, Diocese of Oviedo
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Tarazona, Diocese of Tarazona
Death Place Madrid, Archdiocese of Madrid
Buried Place (Original) Descensión de la Virgen Chapel, Cathedral, Toledo, Archdiocese of Toledo

a priest for 71.5 years
a bishop for 48.5 years
a cardinal for 20.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio †
Titular Archbishop of Lerus
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pedro Cantero Cuadrado †
Archbishop of Zaragoza
Archbishop José Méndez Asensio †
Archbishop of Pamplona (-Tudela)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Luigi Dadaglio † (1961)
Titular Archbishop of Lerus
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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:
Archbishop Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo † (1975)
Bishop Francisco Cases Andreu (1994)
Bishop Ramón del Hoyo López (1996)
Bishop Esteban Escudero Torres † (2001)
Bishop Ángel Rubio Castro (2004)
Bishop Eusebio Ignacio Hernández Sola, O.A.R. (2011)
Bishop Ángel Fernández Collado (2013)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 87490220
WikiData: Q546891

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 123
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 22, Number 1,219
d: CB, 5 Jan 2022
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 251, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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