Bishop José Figueroa Gómez

Bishop Emeritus of Granada en Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Apr 1946		Born
9 Sep 1972	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Barrancabermeja, Colombia
8 Aug 2002	56.2	Appointed	Bishop of Granada en Colombia
12 Oct 2002	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Granada en Colombia
2 Feb 2010	63.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
11 Mar 2011	64.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
27 Jul 2015	69.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
9 Jul 2016	70.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of San José del Guaviare, Colombia
31 May 2025	79.1	Retired	Bishop of Granada en Colombia

MicroData Summary
José Figueroa Gómez
Bishop José Figueroa Gómez
(born 22 Apr 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Granada en Colombia

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

Event Place
Birth Place Bucaramanga, Diocese of Nueva Pamplona
Ordained Bishop Luis F. Castellanos, Stadium, Barrancabermeja, Diocese of Barrancabermeja

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Granada en Colombia.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya †
Bishop of Barrancabermeja
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Beniamino Stella
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Archbishop Juan Francisco Sarasti Jaramillo, C.I.M. †
Archbishop of Cali

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya † (1993)
Bishop of Barrancabermeja
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jorge Enrique Malpica Bejarano (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bucaramanga, Diocese of Nueva Pamplona
Ordained Bishop	Luis F. Castellanos, Stadium, Barrancabermeja, Diocese of Barrancabermeja

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1549213

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Number 14,275
ab: CB, 27 Jul 2015
r: Bollettino, 31 May 2025

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