Bishop Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal, C.M.

Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Dec 1943		Born
24 May 1969	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Mission
22 Apr 1988	44.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia
22 Apr 1988	44.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor
4 Jun 1988	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zama Minor
13 May 1992	48.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
3 May 1994	50.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
16 Jun 2001	57.5	Resigned	Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal
Bishop Alfonso Cabezas Aristizábal C.M.
(born 11 Dec 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Villavicencio

Event Place
Birth Place Neiva
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Cali, Archdiocese of Cali

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Villavicencio.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz †
Archbishop of Cali
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Samuel Silverio Buitrago Trujillo, C.M. †
Archbishop of Popayán
Bishop José Gabriel Calderón Contreras †
Bishop of Cartago

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz † (1971)
Archbishop of Cali
Archbishop Angelo Palmas † (1964)
Titular Archbishop of Vibiana
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Alberto Rozo Gutiérrez, S.M.M. † (2000)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2644504

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 111, Number 9,810
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 260, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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