Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza

Bishop Emeritus of Machala, Ecuador

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Sep 1946		Born
3 Aug 1975	28.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Machala, Ecuador
25 Nov 2004	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador
18 Dec 2004	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador
22 Dec 2004	58.2	Installed	Bishop of Guaranda, Ecuador
20 Jul 2013	66.8	Appointed	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
14 Sep 2013	67.0	Installed	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
27 Sep 2022	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador

MicroData Summary
Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza
Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza
(born 10 Sep 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Machala

Ad Limina - October 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ayapamba
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Machala, Diocese of Machala

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Machala.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia †
Bishop of Machala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso †
Bishop of Babahoyo
Archbishop Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga †
Archbishop of Quito

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia † (1982)
Bishop of Machala
Bishop José Mario Ruiz Navas † (1969)
Bishop of Latacunga
Archbishop Giovanni Ferrofino † (1961)
Titular Archbishop of Zenopolis in Isauria
Archbishop Armando Lombardi † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
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 Fausto Feliciano Gaibor García † (2006)
Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q251833

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Number 14,729
ab: Bollettino, 20 Jul 2013
i: CB, 7 Aug 2013
r: Bollettino, 27 Sep 2022

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