Bishop Nicasio Balisa y Melero, O.A.R. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Casanare

Titular Bishop of Cybistra

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Dec 1893		Born	Ongoz, Spain
11 Oct 1911	17.8	Professed	Member of Order of Augustinian Recollects
11 Apr 1920	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Augustinian Recollects
14 Jan 1941	47.1	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Casanare, Colombia
14 Jan 1941	47.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cybistra
24 Aug 1941	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cybistra
3 Feb 1965	71.1	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Casanare, Colombia

a priest for 44.8 years
a bishop for 23.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Carlo Serena †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Santos Ballesteros López, O.A.R. †
Bishop Luis Andrade Valderrama, O.F.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Nicasio Balisa y Melero, O.A.R. † (1941)
Archbishop Carlo Serena † (1935)
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):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1941, Number 47

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