Bishop Juan de Dios Peña Rojas

Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Aug 1967		Born
1 Dec 1991	24.3	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Mérida, Venezuela
22 Aug 1992	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mérida, Venezuela
17 Apr 2015	47.6	Appointed	Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela
4 Jul 2015	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela
29 Jul 2026	58.9	Appointed	Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Juan de Dios Peña Rojas
Bishop Juan de Dios Peña Rojas
(born 8 Aug 1967)
Bishop of Barinas

Ad Limina - September 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Acequias
Ordained Deacon Cathedral, Mérida, Archdiocese of Mérida
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Mérida, Archdiocese of Mérida
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro, Cathedral, El Vigia, Diocese of El Vigia-San Carlos del Zulia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Barinas.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Archbishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. †
Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida
Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo
Archbishop of Mérida
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo
Archbishop of Mérida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala
Bishop of Barinas
Archbishop Ubaldo Ramón Santana Sequera, F.M.I.
Archbishop of Maracaibo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1983)
Archbishop of Mérida
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerardo Ernesto Salas Arjona (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 90007707
WikiData: Q20015719

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 17 Apr 2015
ob: CB, 17 Apr 2015
c2+: CB, 20 Apr 2015
c1: CB, 2 Jul 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,539
ab: Bollettino, 29 Jul 2026

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