Bishop José Melitón Chávez †

Deceased

Bishop of Concepción, Argentina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jul 1957		Born
29 Nov 1985	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tucumán, Argentina
17 Oct 2015	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Añatuya, Argentina
4 Dec 2015	58.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Añatuya, Argentina
16 Oct 2019	62.2	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Concepción, Argentina
19 Mar 2020	62.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Concepción, Argentina
25 May 2021	63.8	Died	Bishop of Concepción, Argentina

MicroData Summary for José Melitón Chávez
(WikiData: Q21145142)
Bishop José Melitón Chávez (born 2 Jul 1957, died 25 May 2021) Bishop of Concepción

Ad Limina - May 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Romero Pozo, Archdiocese of Tucumán
Ordained Bishop anfiteatro “Padro Aroldo Suárez”, Añatuya, Diocese of Añatuya
Death Place Centro de Salud, Hospital, Tucumán, Archdiocese of Tucumán

a priest for 35.4 years
a bishop for 5.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Horacio Alberto Bózzoli †
Archbishop of Tucumán
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Adolfo Armando Uriona, F.D.P.
Bishop Emeritus of Añatuya
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Luis Héctor Cardinal Villalba
Archbishop Emeritus of Tucumán
Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca †
Archbishop of Tucumán

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Adolfo Armando Uriona, F.D.P. (2004)
Bishop Emeritus of Añatuya
Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J. (1992)
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Antonio Cardinal Quarracino † (1962)
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Bishop Anunciado Serafini † (1935)
Bishop of Mercedes
Archbishop Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † (1935)
Archbishop of Paraná
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 of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop José Luis Corral Peláez, S.V.D. (2019)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Carlos Alberto Sánchez (2017)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Romero Pozo, Archdiocese of Tucumán
Ordained Bishop	anfiteatro “Padro Aroldo Suárez”, Añatuya, Diocese of Añatuya
Death Place	Centro de Salud, Hospital, Tucumán, Archdiocese of Tucumán

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 17 Oct 2015
ob: CB, 18 Oct 2015
c2+: CB, 23 Oct 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Number 18,680
ab: Bollettino, 16 Oct 2019
s: Bollettino, 19 Mar 2020
d: CB, 26 May 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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