Bishop Abel Costas Montaño

Bishop Emeritus of Tarija

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 May 1920		Born	Pocona
22 Sep 1945	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
11 Nov 1968	48.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba, Bolivia
11 Nov 1968	48.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Novi
6 Jan 1969	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Novi
11 Dec 1974	54.5	Appointed	Bishop of Tarija, Bolivia
20 Oct 1995	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Tarija, Bolivia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tarija.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli †
Ernesto Cardinal Civardi †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Abel Costas Montaño (1969)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
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 † (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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Mario Lezana Vaca †

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