Puerto Rico

Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Ordained Bishop	Years	Name	Current Title
12 Oct 1960		Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez	Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
21 Dec 1964		Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce
30 Apr 1976		Bishop Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas	Bishop of Mayagüez
17 Aug 1979		Bishop Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera	Bishop Emeritus of Caguas
17 Aug 1979		Bishop Héctor Manuel Rivera Pérez	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico
7 Sep 1981		Bishop Hermín Negrón Santana	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
4 Aug 1985		Bishop Alvaro Corrada del Rio, S.J.	Bishop of Tyler, Texas, USA
3 Oct 1988		Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M.	Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
6 Jan 1992		Bishop Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P.	Bishop of Arecibo
4 Feb 2001		Bishop Ruben Antonio González Medina, C.M.F.	Bishop of Caguas
25 Apr 2002		Bishop Félix Lázaro Martinez, Sch. P.	Bishop of Ponce
21 Apr 2007		Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
31 May 2008		Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao

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