Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.

Archbishop Emeritus of Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Speranza

Motto: Mihi Vivere Christus Est

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Dec 1942		Born
3 May 1961	18.3	Solemn Vows	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
3 May 1967	24.3	Perpetual Vows	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
28 Jun 1970	27.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
28 Oct 1978	35.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
28 Oct 1978	35.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana
8 Dec 1978	35.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pudentiana
1981²	38.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
17 Mar 1984	41.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras
1993²	50.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of San Pedro Sula, Honduras
8 Jan 1993	50.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
3 Feb 1995	52.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of San Pedro Sula, Honduras
21 Feb 2001	58.1	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	58.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Speranza
27 May 2001	58.4	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Speranza
13 Apr 2013	70.2	Appointed	Coordinator of the Council of Cardinals
26 Jan 2023	80.0	Retired	Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
7 Mar 2023	80.1	Ceased	Coordinator of the Council of Cardinals

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga
Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga S.D.B.
(born 29 Dec 1942)
Archbishop Emeritus of Tegucigalpa

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - June 2008: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - September 2017: Bishop
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Tegucigalpa, Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa
Ordained Priest Guatemala
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora De Suyapa, Tegucigalpa, Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa

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

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera †
Titular Archbishop of Celene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Héctor Enrique Santos Hernández, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
Archbishop Miguel Obando Bravo, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Managua

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera † (1974)
Titular Archbishop of Celene
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F. (1988)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Angel Garachana Pérez, C.M.F. (1995)
Bishop Roberto (Patrick) Camilleri Azzopardi, O.F.M. † (2001)
Bishop Guido Plante, P.M.E. † (2005)
Bishop Luis Felipe Solé Fa, C.M. (2005)
Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F. (2005)
Bishop Jean-Louis Giasson, P.M.E. † (2005)
Bishop Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez, C.R.S. (2006)
Bishop José Bonello, O.F.M. (2011)
Archbishop Michael Lenihan, O.F.M. (2012)
Bishop Guy Charbonneau, P.M.E. (2013)
Bishop Héctor David García Osorio (2014)
Bishop José Antonio Canales Motiño (2017)
Archbishop José Vicente Nácher Tatay, C.M. (2023)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Geraldo Daniel Joseph Scarpone Caporale, O.F.M. † (1979)
Bishop Raúl Corriveau, P.M.E. (1980)
Bishop Leo Schwarz † (1982)
Bishop Luis Alfonso Santos Villeda, S.D.B. (1984)
Bishop Guillermo Francisco Escobar Galicia (2009)
Bishop Mario Fiandri, S.D.B. (2009)
Bishop Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez † (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Tegucigalpa, Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa
Ordained Priest	Guatemala
Ordained Bishop	Nuestra Señora De Suyapa, Tegucigalpa, Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa

External Link(s):

VIAF: 65111397
WikiData: Q293434

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142
ab: Bollettino, 13 Apr 2013
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,890
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 69, Number 5,477
r: Bollettino, 26 Jan 2023
ceas: Bollettino, 7 Mar 2023

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