Costa Rica

Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Ordained Bishop	Years	Name	Current Title
Most Senior
8 Mar 1968		Bishop Ignacio Nazareno Trejos Picado	Bishop Emeritus of San Isidro de El General
5 Apr 1990		Archbishop Giacinto Berloco	Apostolic Nuncio
6 Jan 1991		Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla	Apostolic Nuncio
6 Jan 1995		Archbishop Bruno Musarò	Apostolic Nuncio
22 Feb 1995		Bishop José Francisco Ulloa Rojas	Bishop Emeritus of Cartago
7 Oct 1995		Bishop Angel San Casimiro Fernández, O.A.R.	Bishop Emeritus of Alajuela
14 Oct 1995		Archbishop Antonio Sozzo	Apostolic Nuncio
16 Jul 1998		Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña	Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica
21 Sep 2002		Bishop Vittorino Girardi Stellin, M.C.C.I.	Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán-Liberia
6 Jan 2003		Archbishop Pierre Nguyễn Văn Tốt	Apostolic Nuncio
25 Jul 2003		Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén	Bishop of Puntarenas
20 Sep 2003		Archbishop Antonio Arcari	Apostolic Nuncio
Most Junior
25 Jan 2022		Bishop Juan Miguel Castro Rojas	Bishop of San Isidro de El General
25 Apr 2021		Archbishop Mark Gerard Miles	Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica
29 Sep 2018		Archbishop Dagoberto Campos Salas	Apostolic Nuncio to Panama
26 May 2018		Bishop Bartolomé Buigues Oller, T.C.	Bishop of Alajuela
25 Jan 2018		Bishop Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez	Auxiliary Bishop of San José de Costa Rica
13 May 2017		Bishop Mario Enrique Quirós Quirós	Bishop of Cartago
4 Apr 2016		Bishop Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora	Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia
30 May 2015		Bishop Javier Gerardo Román Arias	Bishop of Limón
17 May 2014		Bishop José Manuel Garita Herrera	Bishop of Ciudad Quesada
1 Mar 2014		Bishop Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv.	Bishop Emeritus of San Isidro de El General
22 Feb 2006		Archbishop José Rafael Quirós Quirós	Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
4 Nov 2004		Bishop Alexander Salazar	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA

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