Diego Rafael Cardinal Padrón Sánchez

Archbishop Emeritus of Cumaná, Venezuela

Cardinal-Priest of San Gaetano

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 May 1939		Born
4 Aug 1963	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valencia en Venezuela
4 Apr 1990	50.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
4 Apr 1990	50.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gisipa
27 May 1990	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gisipa
7 May 1994	54.9	Appointed	Bishop of Maturín, Venezuela
23 Jul 1994	55.1	Installed	Bishop of Maturín, Venezuela
27 Mar 2002	62.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
24 May 2018	79.0	Retired	Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
30 Sep 2023	84.3	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Sep 2023	84.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gaetano
16 Nov 2024	85.4	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gaetano

MicroData Summary
Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez
Diego Rafael Cardinal Padrón Sánchez
(born 17 May 1939)
Archbishop Emeritus of Cumaná

Ad Limina - June 2009: Bishop
Consistory - 2023: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Event Place
Birth Place Montalbán, Diocese of Valencia en Venezuela
Ordained Bishop Santiago y Santa Ana, Cathedral, Caracas, Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Cumaná.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Principal Consecrator:
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Domingo Roa Pérez †
Archbishop of Maracaibo
Archbishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. †
Archbishop of Mérida

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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:
Bishop José Sótero Valero Ruz † (1998)
Bishop José Manuel Romero Barrios (2012)
Bishop Tulio Luis Ramírez Padilla (2012)
Archbishop Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B. (2014)
Bishop José Trinidad Fernández Angulo (2014)
Bishop Benito Adán Méndez Bracamonte (2015)
Bishop José Antonio Da Conceição Ferreira (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1220546

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 24 May 2018
card: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2023
cpri: Bollettino, 30 Sep 2023
i: Bollettino, 12 Nov 2024

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