Bishop Bernardo Álvarez Afonso

Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jul 1949		Born	Breña Alta
16 Jul 1976	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
29 Jun 2005	55.9	Appointed	Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain
4 Sep 2005	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife, Spain

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Felipe Fernández García †
Bishop Damián Iguacén Borau

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Bernardo Álvarez Afonso (2005)
Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro (1985)
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 182, Number 14,970

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