Archbishop Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.

Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Apr 1954		Born
13 Aug 1983	29.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Feb 1993	38.7	Perpetual Vows	Priest of Society of Jesus
9 Jul 2004	50.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala
9 Jul 2004	50.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rotaria
25 Sep 2004	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rotaria
28 Jul 2007	53.2	Appointed	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
22 Sep 2007	53.4	Installed	Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango, Guatemala
2 Oct 2010	56.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
15 Oct 2010	56.4	Installed	Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
17 Sep 2011	57.3	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
9 Jul 2020	66.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala
3 Sep 2020	66.3	Installed	Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala

MicroData Summary
Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez
Archbishop Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez S.J.
(born 28 Apr 1954)
Archbishop of Santiago de Guatemala

Ad Limina - March 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Madrid, Diocese of Madrid, Spain
Ordained Priest Panamá, Archdiocese of Panamá
Ordained Bishop Auditorio "Juan Pablo II", Guatemala, Archdiocese of Guatemala

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C. †
Archbishop of Panamá
Principal Consecrator:
Rodolfo Cardinal Quezada Toruño †
Archbishop of Guatemala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Bruno Musarò
Titular Archbishop of Abari
Bishop Pablo Vizcaino Prado
Bishop of Suchitepéquez-Retalhuleu

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Rodolfo Cardinal Quezada Toruño † (1972)
Archbishop of Guatemala
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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:
Bishop Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus (2016)
Bishop Tulio Omar Pérez Rivera (2022)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Benedicto Moscoso Miranda (2020)
Bishop Juan Manuel Cuá Ajacum (2021)
Bishop Miguel Ángel Martínez Méndez (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1537409

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14,693
ab: Bollettino, 28 Jul 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 210, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ab: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2020
i: CB, 13 Jul 2020

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