Bishop Alejandro Menchaca Lira †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Temuco

Titular Bishop of Pinara

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Aug 1903		Born	Concepción
17 Dec 1927	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile
9 Aug 1941	37.9	Appointed	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
12 Oct 1941	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
13 Sep 1960	57.0	Resigned	Bishop of Temuco, Chile
13 Sep 1960	57.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pinara
21 Jul 1974	70.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Temuco, Chile

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 46.6 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Aldo Laghi †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rafael Lira Infante †
Archbishop Alfredo Cifuentes Gómez †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alejandro Menchaca Lira † (1941)
Archbishop Aldo Laghi † (1938)
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 (Jr.) † (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:
Archbishop Eladio Vicuña Aránguiz †

Source(s):

d: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1975, Necrology (back)
c2+: CB
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1941, Number 54

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