Archbishop Andrés Carrascosa Coso

Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal

Titular Archbishop of Elo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Dec 1955		Born
17 Mar 1979	23.2	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Cuenca, Spain
2 Jul 1980	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cuenca, Spain
31 Jul 2004	48.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Elo
31 Jul 2004	48.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Republic of
26 Aug 2004	48.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Gabon
7 Oct 2004	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Elo
12 Jan 2009	53.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Panama
22 Jun 2017	61.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador
11 Dec 2025	69.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal

MicroData Summary
Andrés Carrascosa Coso
Archbishop Andrés Carrascosa Coso
(born 16 Dec 1955)
Apostolic Nuncio of Portugal

Event Place
Birth Place Cuenca, Diocese of Cuenca, Spain
Ordained Deacon San Esteban, Church, Cuenca, Diocese of Cuenca, Spain
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Nunciature to Portugal.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop José Guerra Campos †
Bishop of Cuenca
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop José Guerra Campos †
Bishop of Cuenca
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Robert Sarah
Archbishop Emeritus of Conakry {Konakry}
Bishop Ramón del Hoyo López
Bishop of Cuenca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Rafael Valdivieso Miranda (2013)
Archbishop Bienvenu Manamika Bafouakouahou (2013)
Bishop Manuel Ochogavía Barahona, O.S.A. (2014)
Bishop Edgardo Cedeño Muñoz, S.V.D. (2015)
Bishop Jaime Oswaldo Castillo Villacrés (2021)
Bishop Krzysztof Kudławiec (2022)
Bishop José Miguel Asimbaya Moreno (2023)
Bishop Carlos Washington Yépez Naranjo (2023)
Bishop Moacir Goulart de Figueredo, M.S.C. (2025)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Bolivar Piedra Aguirre (2019)
Bishop David Israel De la Torre Altamirano, SS.CC. (2019)
Bishop Antonio Crameri, S.S.C. (2020)
Bishop Vicente Horacio Saeteros Sierra (2020)
Bishop Gerardo Miguel Nieves Loja (2021)
Bishop Gustavo Adolfo Rosales Escobar (2022)
Bishop Ángel Maximiliano Ordoñez Sigcho (2022)
Bishop Ramiro Alejandro Herrera Herrera (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cuenca, Diocese of Cuenca, Spain
Ordained Deacon	San Esteban, Church, Cuenca, Diocese of Cuenca, Spain
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 58292616
WikiData: Q523949

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Number 14,702
ab: Bollettino, 12 Jan 2009
ab: Bollettino, 22 Jun 2017
od/c0: CB, 17 Mar 2019
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ab: Bollettino, 11 Dec 2025

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