Archbishop Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Apr 1905		Born
14 Jul 1929	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
21 Oct 1949	44.4	Appointed	Bishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
13 Nov 1949	44.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
30 Apr 1966	61.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
18 Oct 1982	77.4	Retired	Archbishop of Barquisimeto, Venezuela
1 May 1991	86.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Barquisimeto, Venezuela

MicroData Summary for Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel
(VIAF: 304917737; WikiData: Q11855594)
Archbishop Críspulo Benítez Fontúrvel (born 25 Apr 1905, died 1 May 1991) Archbishop Emeritus of Barquisimeto

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Porlamar
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Caracas, Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 41.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco †
Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Bishop Antonio Ignacio Camargo †
Titular Bishop of Ombi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández † (1923)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 José Léon Rojas Chaparro † (1961)
Bishop Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez † (1963)
Bishop Eduardo Herrera Riera † (1965)
Bishop Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza † (1967)
Bishop Marcial Augusto Ramírez Ponce † (1967)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Porlamar
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Caracas, Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Source(s):

c2+: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 129
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 102
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 1, Number 22

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