Bishop Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno

Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote, Peru

Motto: Sufficit Tibi Gratia Mea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Dec 1945		Born
22 Apr 1973	27.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Francisco Javier, Peru
18 May 1991	45.4	Appointed	Bishop of Chachapoyas, Peru
5 Jul 1991	45.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chachapoyas, Peru
18 Mar 1995	49.2	Appointed	Bishop of Cajamarca, Peru
4 Feb 2004	58.1	Appointed	Bishop of Chimbote, Peru
2 May 2004	58.4	Installed	Bishop of Chimbote, Peru
18 May 2022	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Chimbote, Peru

MicroData Summary
Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno
Bishop Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno
(born 3 Dec 1945)
Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote

Ad Limina - May 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Corbellino di Sayago, Spain
Ordained Bishop Chachapoyas, Diocese of Chachapoyas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Chimbote.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luigi Dossena †
Titular Archbishop of Carpi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Augusto Vargas Alzamora, S.J. †
Archbishop of Lima
Bishop José María Izuzquiza Herranz, S.J. †
Titular Bishop of Cubda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Luigi Dossena † (1973)
Titular Archbishop of Carpi
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 José Ignacio Alemany Grau, C.Ss.R. (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro, O.A.R. (2002)
Bishop Ángel Ernesto Zapata Bances, O.C.D. (2022)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6173524

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 128, Number 11,548
r: Bollettino, 18 May 2022

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