Bishop José Ángel Rovai †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Villa María, Argentina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Oct 1936		Born
15 Aug 1963	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Córdoba, Argentina
13 Aug 1999	62.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Córdoba, Argentina
13 Aug 1999	62.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abaradira
1 Nov 1999	63.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abaradira
3 Oct 2006	69.9	Appointed	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina
3 Dec 2006	70.1	Installed	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina
28 Feb 2013	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Villa María, Argentina
19 Jun 2024	87.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Villa María, Argentina

MicroData Summary
José Ángel Rovai
Bishop José Ángel Rovai
(born 19 Oct 1936, died 19 Jun 2024)
Bishop Emeritus of Villa María

Ad Limina - March 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Córdoba, Archdiocese of Córdoba
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Cathedral, Córdoba, Archdiocese of Córdoba
Death Place Instituto Modelo de Cardiologia, Córdoba, Archdiocese of Córdoba

a priest for 60.8 years
a bishop for 24.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Ramón José Castellano †
Archbishop of Córdoba
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Carlos José Ñáñez
Archbishop of Córdoba
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic †
Archbishop of Paraná
Archbishop José María Arancibia
Archbishop of Mendoza

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Carlos José Ñáñez (1991)
Archbishop of Córdoba
Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta † (1957)
Archbishop of Córdoba
Archbishop Antonio José Plaza † (1950)
Archbishop of La Plata
Archbishop Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † (1935)
Archbishop of Paraná
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Damián Santiago Bitar (2008)
Bishop Samuel Jofré Giraudo (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sergio Osvaldo Buenanueva (2008)
Bishop Pedro Javier Torres Aliaga (2013)
Ángel Sixto Cardinal Rossi, S.J. (2021)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q738641

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 3 Oct 2006
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13,645
r: Bollettino, 28 Feb 2013
d: CB, 19 Jun 2024

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