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

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jun 1907		Born	Chicago, IL, USA
24 Jun 1935	28.1	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	87.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo, Puerto Rico

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

a priest for 59.6 years
a bishop for 34.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne †
Bishop Richard Henry Ackerman, C.S.Sp. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C. † (1960)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
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 Marcos Gregorio McGrath, C.S.C. †
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †
Bishop Rafael Grovas Felix †
Bishop Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.SS.R. †
Bishop Kenneth Donald Steiner
Bishop Paul Edward Waldschmidt, C.S.C. †

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1960, Number 114

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