Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo †

Deceased

Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber

Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Mar 1927		Born
19 Mar 1950	22.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Calahorra y La Calzada, Spain
1970²	42.7	Appointed	Assessor of the Secretariat of State
12 Nov 1975	48.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Thagora
12 Nov 1975	48.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia
13 Dec 1975	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Thagora
5 May 1979	52.0	Appointed	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
23 Mar 1988	60.9	Ceased	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
28 Jun 1988	61.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimo Nome di Gesù
28 Jun 1988	61.2	Elevated to Cardinal
1 Jul 1988	61.2	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
21 Jan 1992	64.8	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
5 Apr 1993	66.0	Appointed	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
9 Jan 1999	71.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù
4 Jun 2000	73.1	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù
11 Feb 2004	76.8	Retired	Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
4 Apr 2007	80.0	Retired	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
10 Aug 2021	94.3	Died	Chamberlain Emeritus of the Apostolic Chamber

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Eduardo Martínez Somalo
Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo
(born 31 Mar 1927, died 10 Aug 2021)
Chamberlain Emeritus of Apostolic Chamber

Consistory - 1988: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated; Camerlengo (Chamberlain)
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Baños de Río Tobía, Spain
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Vatican City, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 71.3 years
a bishop for 45.6 years
a cardinal for 33.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Luigi Traglia †
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Principal Consecrator:
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot †
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Benelli †
Titular Archbishop of Tusuros
Bishop Francisco Alvarez Martínez †
Bishop of Tarazona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot † (1954)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Maurice Cardinal Feltin † (1928)
Archbishop of Paris
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Binet † (1920)
Archbishop of Besançon
Louis-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Luçon † (1888)
Archbishop of Reims
Bishop Charles-Emile Freppel † (1870)
Bishop of Angers
François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet † (1835)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Gustave-Maximilien-Juste de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop of Rouen
Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790)
Archbishop of Reims
Archbishop Antonio Dugnani † (1785)
Titular Archbishop of Rhodus
Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico (Jr.) † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Olavio López Duque, O.A.R. † (1977)
Bishop José Agustín Valbuena Jáuregui † (1977)
Bishop Rafael Arcadio Bernal Supelano, C.Ss.R. † (1978)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Justo Mullor García † (1979)
Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda (1979)
Achille Cardinal Silvestrini † (1979)
Bishop Samuel Seraphimov Djoundrine, A.A. † (1979)
Bishop Rubén López Ardón (1979)
Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro, M.C.C.I. † (1979)
Bishop Vincent Mojwok Nyiker † (1979)
Bishop Armido Gasparini, F.S.C.J. † (1979)
Bishop Michael Hughes Kenny † (1979)
Bishop William Russell Houck † (1979)
Archbishop José Cardoso Sobrinho, O. Carm. (1979)
Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F. † (1979)
Bishop Décio Pereira † (1979)
Bishop Fernando José Penteado (1979)
Bishop Girolamo Grillo † (1979)
Archbishop Paciano Basilio Aniceto (1979)
Archbishop Alan Basil de Lastic † (1979)
Bishop William Thomas Larkin † (1979)
John Joseph Cardinal O’Connor † (1979)
Bishop Jean-Marie Lafontaine † (1979)
Bishop Ladislau Biernaski, C.M. † (1979)
Bishop Newton Holanda Gurgel † (1979)
Bishop Matthew Harvey Clark † (1979)
Bishop Alejandro Goić Karmelić (1979)
Bishop Pedro de Guzman Magugat, M.S.C. † (1979)
Bishop Ramón López Carrozas, O. de M. † (1979)
Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Giovanni Cardinal Coppa † (1980)
Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, S.J. † (1980)
Christian Wiyghan Cardinal Tumi † (1980)
Archbishop Charles Louis Joseph Vandame, S.J. (1982)
Archbishop John Bulaitis † (1982)
Archbishop Traian Crisan † (1982)
Bishop Charles Kweku Sam † (1982)
Bishop Thomas Joseph O’Brien † (1982)
Bishop Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, C.S.S. † (1982)
Bishop Francis George Adeodatus Micallef, O.C.D. † (1982)
Bishop Anthony Michael Milone † (1982)
Bishop Salim Sayegh (1982)
Virgilio Cardinal Noè † (1982)
Archbishop Antonio Vitale Bommarco, O.F.M. Conv. † (1983)
Archbishop José Sebastián Laboa Gallego † (1983)
Karl-Josef Cardinal Rauber † (1983)
Francesco Cardinal Monterisi (1983)
Bishop Kevin Joseph Aje † (1983)
John Olorunfemi Cardinal Onaiyekan (1983)
Bishop Pietro Rossano † (1983)
Bishop Anacleto Sima Ngua † (1983)
Archbishop Ildefonso Obama Obono (1983)
Bishop Jaroslav Škarvada † (1983)
Archbishop Dominik Hrušovský † (1983)
Bishop Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine † (1983)
Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski † (1983)
Archbishop Juliusz Paetz † (1983)
Alfons Maria Cardinal Stickler, S.D.B. † (1983)
Paolo Cardinal Romeo (1984)
Bishop Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol (1984)
Polycarp Cardinal Pengo (1984)
Bishop Nicolas Okioh † (1984)
Bishop Eugenio Binini (1984)
Bishop Ernest Kombo, S.J. † (1984)
Jan Pieter Cardinal Schotte, C.I.C.M. † (1984)
Bishop Mathai Kochuparampil, S.D.B. † (1984)
Bishop Domenico Pecile † (1984)
Archbishop Pier Giacomo De Nicolò † (1984)
Bishop Bernard Patrick Devlin † (1985)
Bishop Kazimierz Górny (1985)
Bishop Aloysius Balina † (1985)
Bishop Afonso Nteka, O.F.M. Cap. † (1985)
Bishop Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, O.F.M. Cap. † (1985)
Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle † (1985)
Jorge Arturo Augustin Cardinal Medina Estévez † (1985)
Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali (1985)
Jorge María Cardinal Mejía † (1986)
Gilberto Angelo Cardinal Agustoni † (1987)
Archbishop Franc Perko † (1987)
Dino Cardinal Monduzzi † (1987)
Bishop Joseph Sangval Surasarang † (1987)
Bishop George (Giorgio) Biguzzi, S.X. † (1987)
Bishop Benedict Dotu Sekey † (1987)
Bishop Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle (1987)
Bishop William Jerome McCormack † (1987)
Bishop Emmanuel Alex Mapunda † (1987)
Bishop Dominic Su Haw Chiu (1987)
Bishop John Magee, S.P.S. (1987)
Beniamino Cardinal Stella (1987)
Bishop René Pierre Louis Joseph Séjourné † (1987)
Bishop Giulio Nicolini † (1987)
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re (1987)
Patriarch Michel Sabbah (1988)
Archbishop Marian Oleś † (1988)
Archbishop Emery Kabongo Kanundowi (1988)
Bishop Luís d’Andrea, O.F.M. Conv. † (1988)
Bishop Victor Adibe Chikwe † (1988)
Bishop Athanasius Atule Usuh † (1988)
Bishop José Raúl Vera López, O.P. (1988)
Bishop Srećko Badurina, T.O.R. † (1988)
Bishop Luigi Belloli † (1988)
Bishop John Gavin Nolan † (1988)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/232642
VIAF: 89498254
WikiData: Q504821

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2007
i: Bollettino, 23 May 2000
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 33, Number 1,994
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 51, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 10 Aug 2021
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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