Bishop Jorge Bernal Vargas, L.C. †

Deceased

Prelate Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Feb 1929		Born
15 Sep 1957	28.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ
7 Dec 1973	44.7	Appointed	Prelate of Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
7 Dec 1973	44.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Velefi
19 Mar 1974	45.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Velefi
15 Feb 1978	48.9	Resigned	Titular Bishop of Velefi
26 Oct 2004	75.6	Retired	Prelate of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México
11 Jul 2023	94.3	Died	Prelate Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo, México

MicroData Summary
Jorge Bernal Vargas
Bishop Jorge Bernal Vargas L.C.
(born 28 Feb 1929, died 11 Jul 2023)
Prelate Emeritus of Cancún-Chetumal

Ad Limina - October 2005: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Apizaco
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Church, Chetumal, Territorial Prelature of Chetumal, Quintana Roo
Death Place Chetumal, Diocese of Cancún-Chetumal, Quintana Roo

a priest for 65.8 years
a bishop for 49.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari †
Titular Archbishop of Numida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José de Jesús Garcia Ayala †
Bishop of Campeche
Bishop Luis Guízar y Barragán †
Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari † (1973)
Titular Archbishop of Numida
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pedro Pablo Elizondo Cárdenas, L.C. (2004)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1703772

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 30, Number 1,698
d: CB, 11 Jul 2023

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