Archbishop Ismael Rueda Sierra

Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 May 1950		Born
22 Aug 1981	31.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
1988	37.6	Incardinated	Priest of Girardot, Colombia
20 Dec 2000	50.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena, Colombia
20 Dec 2000	50.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Buruni
17 Feb 2001	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Buruni
27 Jun 2003	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
13 Feb 2009	58.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia
2 May 2009	58.9	Installed	Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Ismael Rueda Sierra
Archbishop Ismael Rueda Sierra
(born 11 May 1950)
Archbishop of Bucaramanga

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Suaita

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jorge Ardila Serrano †
Bishop of Girardot
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Carlos José Ruiseco Vieira
Archbishop of Cartagena
Bishop Flavio Calle Zapata
Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jorge Ardila Serrano † (1980)
Bishop of Girardot
Aníbal Cardinal Muñoz Duque † (1951)
Archbishop of Bogotá
Archbishop Antonio Samorè † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Ternobus
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Luis José Cardinal Rueda Aparicio (2012)
Bishop Ramón Alberto Rolón Güepsa (2012)
Bishop Marco Antonio Merchán Ladino (2016)
Bishop Orlando Olave Villanoba (2017)
Bishop Félix María Ramírez Barajas (2022)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1571578

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 13 Feb 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,911

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