Archbishop Sotero Sanz Villalba †

Deceased

Apostolic Delegate to México

Titular Archbishop of Emerita Augusta

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Apr 1919		Born
4 Jul 1942	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tarazona (-Tudela), Spain
16 Jul 1970	51.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Emerita Augusta
16 Jul 1970	51.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile
12 Sep 1970	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Emerita Augusta
24 Nov 1977	58.5	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to México
17 Jan 1978	58.7	Died	Apostolic Delegate to México

MicroData Summary for Sotero Sanz Villalba
Archbishop Sotero Sanz Villalba (born 22 Apr 1919, died 17 Jan 1978) Apostolic Delegate of México

Event Place
Birth Place El Buste, Spain
Ordained Priest Comillas, Spain

a priest for 35.5 years
a bishop for 7.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Benjamín de Arriba y Castro †
Bishop of Mondoñedo
Principal Consecrator:
Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón †
Archbishop of Toledo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Benjamín Cardinal de Arriba y Castro †
Archbishop of Tarragona
Archbishop Pedro Cantero Cuadrado †
Archbishop of Zaragoza

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón † (1946)
Archbishop of Toledo
Bishop Manuel Moll y Salord † (1937)
Bishop of Tortosa
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria
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 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Cristián Enrique Contreras Molina, O. de M. (1974)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Tomás Osvaldo González Morales, S.D.B. (1974)

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140
c1: CB, 10 Apr 2017

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