Bishop Nel Hedye Beltrán Santamaria †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sincelejo, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Dec 1941		Born
29 Jun 1964	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
29 Apr 1992	50.3	Appointed	Bishop of Sincelejo, Colombia
6 Jun 1992	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sincelejo, Colombia
15 Mar 2014	72.2	Resigned	Bishop of Sincelejo, Colombia
12 Aug 2025	83.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sincelejo, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Nel Hedye Beltrán Santamaria
Bishop Nel Hedye Beltrán Santamaria
(born 24 Dec 1941, died 12 Aug 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Sincelejo

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place San Andrés, Diocese of Nueva Pamplona
Ordained Priest Barrancabermeja, Diocese of Barrancabermeja
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Barrancabermeja, Diocese of Barrancabermeja
Death Place Barrancabermeja, Diocese of Barrancabermeja

a priest for 61.1 years
a bishop for 33.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz †
Archbishop of Cali
Bishop Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M. †
Bishop of Barrancabermeja

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Paolo Romeo (1984)
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q20922500

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 131, Number 11,779
r: Bollettino, 15 Mar 2014
opd/loc: CB, 16 Aug 2024
d: CB, 12 Aug 2025

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