Bishop José Sótero Valero Ruz †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Guanare, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Apr 1936		Born
16 May 1964	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
9 May 1998	62.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia en Venezuela
9 May 1998	62.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Alba
27 Jun 1998	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Alba
19 Mar 2001	64.9	Appointed	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
12 Oct 2011	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
29 Jun 2012	76.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Guanare, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
José Sótero Valero Ruz
Bishop José Sótero Valero Ruz
(born 22 Apr 1936, died 29 Jun 2012)
Bishop Emeritus of Guanare

Ad Limina - June 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Timotes

a priest for 48.1 years
a bishop for 14.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino †
Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez
Bishop of Maturín
Bishop Pedro Nicolás Bermúdez Villamizar, C.I.M. †
Titular Bishop of Lamsorti

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino † (1982)
Archbishop of Valencia en Venezuela
Archbishop José Alí 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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1370819

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 12 Oct 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Number 13,348
d: CB, 29 Jun 2012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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