Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero †

Deceased

Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Nov 1968		Born
1 Jul 1993	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
28 May 2012	43.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Medellín, Colombia
28 May 2012	43.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia
4 Aug 2012	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Numidia
22 Oct 2020	51.9	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
16 Dec 2020	52.0	Installed	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
3 May 2022	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
23 Mar 2023	54.3	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
8 Jul 2023	54.6	Died	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia

MicroData Summary for Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero
(VIAF: 186793506; WikiData: Q1331634)
Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero (born 21 Nov 1968, died 8 Jul 2023) Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos

Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place El Retiro, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Medellín, Archdiocese of Medellín
Death Place Sacrisity, Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Church, El Retiro, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro

a priest for 30.0 years
a bishop for 10.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Flavio Calle Zapata
Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
Archbishop of Medellín
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta
Bishop of Riohacha
Archbishop Flavio Calle Zapata
Archbishop of Ibagué

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo (2003)
Archbishop of Medellín
Archbishop Beniamino Stella (1987)
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 José Mauricio Vélez García (2017)
Bishop José Saúl Grisales Grisales (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	El Retiro, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro
Ordained Priest	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Medellín, Archdiocese of Medellín
Death Place	Sacrisity, Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Church, El Retiro, Diocese of Sonsón-Rionegro

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 May 2012
ob: CB, 28 May 2012
c2+: CB, 2 Aug 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Number 17,521
ab: Bollettino, 22 Oct 2020
aadm: CB, 3 May 2022
d: CB, 8 Jul 2023

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