Archbishop Rafael Manuel José Benito de Vélez Téllez, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Oct 1777		Born	Vélez de Benaudalla
1800¹	22.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
14 Apr 1817	39.5	Appointed	Bishop of Ceuta, Spain
13 Jun 1817	39.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ceuta, Spain
30 May 1824	46.6	Selected	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
12 Jul 1824	46.7	Confirmed	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
29 Oct 1824	47.0	Selected	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
20 Dec 1824	47.2	Confirmed	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
3 Aug 1850	72.8	Died	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

a priest for 50.6 years
a bishop for 33.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
- Luis María Cardinal Borbón Vallabriga †
  Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Scala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Bishop Antonio Allué y Sesse †
  Bishop of Gerona
- Bishop Luis Gregorio López Castillo †
  Titular Bishop of Loryma

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Luis María Cardinal Borbón Vallabriga † (1799)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Scala
Antonio Cardinal Sentmanat y Castellá † (1783)
Patriarch of West Indies
Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada † (1766)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
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 Joseph (José María Benito) Serra y Juliá, O.S.B. † (1835)
- Archbishop Manuel Teodoro del Valle Seoane † (1836)

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 121, and Page 158
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 343