Bishop Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal

Bishop of Vitoria, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jun 1960		Born
3 Oct 1987	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
8 Jan 2016	55.5	Appointed	Bishop of Vitoria, Spain
12 Mar 2016	55.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vitoria, Spain

MicroData Summary
Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal
Bishop Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal
(born 25 Jun 1960)
Bishop of Vitoria

Event Place
Birth Place Mezkiritz
Ordained Bishop María Inmaculada, Madre de la Iglesia, Co-Cathedral, Vitoria, Diocese of Vitoria

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Vitoria.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Renzo Fratini
Titular Archbishop of Botriana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Fidel Herráez Vegas
Archbishop of Burgos
Bishop Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B. †
Bishop Emeritus of Vitoria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Renzo Fratini (1993)
Titular Archbishop of Botriana
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 29262155
WikiData: Q21994881

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 8 Jan 2016
ob/c2+: CB, 15 Jan 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 227, Number 18,858

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