Archbishop Braulio Rodríguez Plaza

Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Jan 1944		Born
3 Apr 1972	28.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madrid, Spain
6 Nov 1987	43.7	Appointed	Bishop of Osma-Soria, Spain
20 Dec 1987	43.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Osma-Soria, Spain
12 May 1995	51.2	Appointed	Bishop of Salamanca, Spain
28 Aug 2002	58.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
13 Oct 2002	58.7	Installed	Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
16 Apr 2009	65.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
21 Jun 2009	65.4	Installed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
27 Dec 2019	75.9	Retired	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain

MicroData Summary
Braulio Rodríguez Plaza
Archbishop Braulio Rodríguez Plaza
(born 27 Jan 1944)
Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo

Ad Limina - January 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Aldea del Fresno
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Burgo de Osma, Diocese of Osma-Soria

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Toledo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón †
Archbishop of Madrid
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri †
Titular Archbishop of Formiae
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea †
Archbishop of Madrid
Archbishop Teodoro Cardenal Fernández †
Archbishop of Burgos

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri † (1970)
Titular Archbishop of Formiae
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot † (1954)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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-Émile 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 Ángel Fernández Collado (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gregorio Martínez Sacristán † (2007)
Archbishop Francisco Cerro Chaves (2007)
Bishop José Rico Pavés (2012)
Archbishop Luis Javier Argüello García (2016)
Bishop Francisco César García Magán (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 86541111
WikiData: Q717558

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 108, Number 9,519
r: Bollettino, 27 Dec 2019

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