Bishop Miguel Antonio Mejía †

Deceased

Bishop of Guayana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jun 1877		Born	Mendoza
13 Oct 1901	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Jun 1923	46.1	Appointed	Bishop of Guayana, Venezuela
21 Oct 1923	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Guayana, Venezuela
6 Oct 1947	70.3	Died	Bishop of Guayana, Venezuela

a priest for 46.0 years
a bishop for 24.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi †
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Arturo Celestino Alvarez †
Bishop of Calabozo
Bishop Sixto Sosa Díaz †
Bishop of Cumaná

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francisco José Iturriza Guillén, S.D.B. † (1940)

Source(s):

c2: Annuaire Pontifical Catholique, Year 1939
c2+: CB
op/ob/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1923, Number 61