Felipe Cardinal Arizmendi Esquivel

Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort

Motto: Cristo Único Camino

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 May 1940		Born
25 Aug 1963	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Toluca, México, México
7 Feb 1991	50.7	Appointed	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
7 Mar 1991	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tapachula, Chiapas, México
31 Mar 2000	59.9	Appointed	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
1 May 2000	60.0	Installed	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
3 Nov 2017	77.5	Retired	Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
28 Nov 2020	80.5	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Nov 2020	80.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort
29 Nov 2020	80.5	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort

MicroData Summary
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel
Felipe Cardinal Arizmendi Esquivel
(born 1 May 1940)
Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Las Casas

Ad Limina - September 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop
Consistory - 2020: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Chiltepec, Archdiocese of México, Federal District
Ordained Priest Toluca, Diocese of Toluca, México
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Tapachula, Diocese of Tapachula, Chiapas

Please contact the Cardinal through the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera †
Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo León
Archbishop Bartolomé Carrasco Briseño †
Archbishop of Antequera, Oaxaca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz (2003)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Manuel López Alfaro (2020)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 311340438
WikiData: Q645159

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 128, Number 11,540
r: Bollettino, 3 Nov 2017
card: Bollettino, 25 Oct 2020
cpri: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2020
i: Bollettino, 29 Nov 2020

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