Bishop Gustavo Girón Higuita, O.C.D.

Bishop Emeritus of Tumaco, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1940		Born
8 Dec 1959	19.5	Professed	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites
2 Dec 1967	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
8 Feb 1990	49.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Tumaco, Colombia
8 Feb 1990	49.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bisica
22 Apr 1990	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bisica
29 Oct 1999	59.4	Appointed	Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia
25 Jul 2015	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Tumaco, Colombia

MicroData Summary for Gustavo Girón Higuita
(WikiData: Q1556778)
Bishop Gustavo Girón Higuita O.C.D. (born 28 May 1940) Bishop Emeritus of Tumaco

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

Event Place
Birth Place Medellín, Archdiocese of Medellín
Ordained Bishop El Señor de las Miericorias, Church, Medellín, Archdiocese of Medellín

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tumaco.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Ángel María Ocampo Berrio, S.J. †
Archbishop of Tunja
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Miguel Ángel Rafael María de Santa Teresita del Nino Jesús Lecumberri Erburu, O.C.D. †
Titular Bishop of Lambiridi
Archbishop Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira
Archbishop of Cartagena

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

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 129, Number 11,589
r: Bollettino, 25 Jul 2015
prof/c1/loc: CB, 12 Jun 2022

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