Paraguay

Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Ordained Bishop	Years	Name	Current Title
Most Senior
24 Sep 1961		Archbishop Felipe Santiago Benitez Avalos	Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción
23 Jan 1966		Archbishop Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, S.D.B.	Archbishop Emeritus of Asunción
18 Feb 1968		Antonio Cardinal Innocenti	Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy, Roman Curia
1 May 1976		Bishop Claudio Silvero Acosta, S.C.I.	Auxiliary Bishop of Encarnación
25 Nov 1976		Bishop Jorge Adolfo Carlos Livieres Banks	Bishop Emeritus of Encarnación
19 Aug 1978		Bishop Oscar Páez Garcete	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad del Este
3 Sep 1978		Bishop Carlos Milcíades Villalba Aquino	Bishop Emeritus of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones
24 Feb 1979		Archbishop Giorgio Zur	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Austria
1 May 1979		Bishop Sebelio Peralta Alvarez	Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo
10 Aug 1980		Bishop Mario Melanio Medina Salinas	Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones
15 Aug 1982		Archbishop Eustaquio Pastor Cuquejo Verga, C.SS.R.	Archbishop of Asunción
29 May 1983		Bishop Celso Yegros Estigarribia	Bishop of Carapeguá
Most Junior
22 Apr 2006		Bishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid, S.D.B.	Vicar Apostolic of Chaco Paraguayo
3 Oct 2004		Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano	Bishop of Ciudad del Este
11 Sep 1999		Archbishop Orlando Antonini	Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay
20 Sep 1998		Bishop Cándido Cárdenas Villalba	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval
7 Jun 1998		Bishop Ignacio Gogorza Izaguirre, S.C.I.	Bishop of Encarnación
8 Nov 1997		Bishop Adalberto Martínez Flores	Bishop of San Pedro
4 Nov 1995		Archbishop Antonio Lucibello	Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey
8 May 1994		Bishop Juan Bautista Gavilán Velásquez	Bishop of Coronel Oviedo
17 Apr 1994		(Layman) Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, S.V.D.
6 Jan 1994		Bishop Ricardo Valenzuela Rios	Bishop of Paraguay, Military
7 Mar 1992		Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri	Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil
22 Dec 1991		Bishop Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina	Bishop of Caacupé

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