Bishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jun 1907		Born
24 Jun 1935	28.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of Holy Cross
23 Jul 1960	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
28 Oct 1960	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
21 Jan 1974	66.6	Resigned	Bishop of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
28 Jan 1995	87.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

MicroData Summary for Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez
(WikiData: Q1747672)
Bishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez C.S.C. (born 3 Jun 1907, died 28 Jan 1995) Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo

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

Event Place
Birth Place Chicago, IL, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ordained Priest Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Church, Notre Dame, IN
Death Place Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

a priest for 59.5 years
a bishop for 34.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Francis Noll †
Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne †
Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bishop Richard Henry Ackerman, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop of Covington, Kentucky

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C. † (1961)
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver † (1964)
Bishop Rafael Grovas Felix † (1965)
Bishop Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.SS.R. † (1974)
Bishop Paul Edward Waldschmidt, C.S.C. † (1978)
Bishop Kenneth Donald Steiner (1978)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1960, Number 114
c1: CB, 22 May 2022

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