Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Tunja, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Apr 1942		Born
24 Dec 1967	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Consolata Missionaries
17 Oct 1986	44.5	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of San Vicente-Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia
17 Oct 1986	44.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae
29 Nov 1986	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aquae Flaviae
2 Feb 1998	55.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Tunja, Colombia
11 Feb 2020	77.8	Retired	Archbishop of Tunja, Colombia
2 Aug 2022	80.3	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Tunja, Colombia

MicroData Summary for Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga
(VIAF: 50904036; WikiData: Q1499385)
Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga I.M.C. (born 8 Apr 1942, died 2 Aug 2022) Archbishop Emeritus of Tunja

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá
Ordained Bishop Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá
Death Place Clínica Marly, Chía

a priest for 54.6 years
a bishop for 35.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Mario Revollo Bravo †
Archbishop of Bogotá
Bishop José Luis Serna Alzate, I.M.C. †
Bishop of Florencia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (1974)
Titular Archbishop of Zella
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Joaquín Humberto Pinzón Güiza, I.M.C. (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Francisco Javier Múnera Correa, I.M.C. (1999)
Bishop José Vicente Huertas Vargas † (2000)
Archbishop Misael Vacca Ramirez (2001)
Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz (2003)
Bishop Luis Felipe Sánchez Aponte (2004)
Bishop Jaime Muñoz Pedroza (2010)
Bishop Froilán Tiberio Casas Ortíz (2012)
Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (2016)
Bishop Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias (2016)
Bishop Jaime Cristóbal Abril González (2016)
Bishop Marco Antonio Merchán Ladino (2016)

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 11 Feb 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Number 8,757
d: CB, 2 Aug 2022

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