Bishop Giovani Edgar Arana

Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 May 1974		Born
8 Dec 2004	30.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Paz, Bolivia
27 Mar 2018	43.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
27 Mar 2018	43.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Muteci
25 Jul 2018	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Muteci
16 Jul 2020	46.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of El Alto, Bolivia
30 Mar 2021	46.8	Appointed	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia
10 Jun 2021	47.0	Installed	Bishop of El Alto, Bolivia

MicroData Summary
Giovani Edgar Arana
Bishop Giovani Edgar Arana
(born 23 May 1974)
Bishop of El Alto

Event Place
Birth Place La Paz, Archdiocese of La Paz
Ordained Bishop Virgen de la Candelaira, Cathedral, El Alto, Diocese of El Alto

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of El Alto.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini †
Bishop of El Alto
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero
Archbishop of La Paz
Archbishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes
Archbishop of Cochabamba

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini † (2010)
Bishop of El Alto
Bishop Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B. (1988)
Bishop of El Alto
Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló (1985)
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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 (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:
Bishop Pascual Limachi Ortiz (2019)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q51028496

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 27 Mar 2018
ob: CB, 29 Jun 2018
c2: CB, 24 Jul 2018
c34: CB, 25 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 237, Number 19,826
ab: Bollettino, 30 Mar 2021
aadm/i: CB, 10 Jun 2021

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