Bishop Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi

Bishop Emeritus of Santa Marta, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Oct 1935		Born
27 Aug 1967	31.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Opus Dei
9 Dec 1977	42.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Barranquilla, Colombia
9 Dec 1977	42.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum
18 Feb 1978	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum
4 Dec 1987	52.1	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia
5 Aug 2014	78.7	Retired	Bishop of Santa Marta, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi
Bishop Hugo Eugenio Puccini Banfi
(born 21 Oct 1935)
Bishop Emeritus of Santa Marta

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

Event Place
Birth Place Barranquilla, Archdiocese of Barranquilla
Ordained Bishop Ste Marie Reine, Barranquilla, Archdiocese of Barranquilla

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Santa Marta.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Germán Villa Gaviria, C.I.M. †
Archbishop of Barranquilla
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Mario Revollo Bravo †
Titular Bishop of Thinisa in Numidia
Bishop Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira
Bishop of Montería

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Germán Villa Gaviria, C.I.M. † (1957)
Archbishop of Barranquilla
Archbishop José Ignacio López Umaña † (1924)
Archbishop of Cartagena
Archbishop Roberto Vicentini † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Helenopolis in Palaestina
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt (2004)
Bishop Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz † (2014)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1281439

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 5 Aug 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 46, Number 3,132

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