Archbishop Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina

Apostolic Nuncio to Japan

Titular Archbishop of Gratiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jan 1965		Born
26 Aug 1989	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
19 Mar 2016	51.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
19 Mar 2016	51.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Gratiana
21 May 2016	51.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Gabon
28 May 2016	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Gratiana
4 Jun 2021	56.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
25 Jan 2024	58.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Japan

MicroData Summary for Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina
(VIAF: 311261331; WikiData: Q23296569)
Archbishop Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina (born 29 Jan 1965) Apostolic Nuncio of Japan

Event Place
Birth Place La Grita
Ordained Bishop Santo Tomás de Aquino, Seminary, Palmira, Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela

Please contact the Archbishop through the Nunciature to Japan.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Aldo Giordano †
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez
Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Bishop José Trinidad Fernández Angulo
Titular Bishop of Pumentum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Aldo Giordano † (2013)
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Archbishop Pietro Parolin (2009)
Titular Archbishop of Aquipendium
Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Daniel Franck Nzika (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga (2020)

Event	Place
Birth Place	La Grita
Ordained Bishop	Santo Tomás de Aquino, Seminary, Palmira, Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 19 Mar 2016
ob: CB, 10 Apr 2016
ab: Bollettino, 21 May 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 228, Number 18,923
mn: CB, 13 Jan 2018
ab: Bollettino, 4 Jun 2021
ab: Bollettino, 25 Jan 2024

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