Bishop Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez

Auxiliary Bishop of San José de Costa Rica

Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Oct 1973		Born
8 Dec 2000	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of San José de Costa Rica
28 Nov 2017	44.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San José de Costa Rica
28 Nov 2017	44.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis
25 Jan 2018	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pulcheriopolis

MicroData Summary
Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez
Bishop Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez
(born 4 Oct 1973)
Auxiliary Bishop of San José de Costa Rica

Event Place
Birth Place San José, Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, San José, Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José Rafael Quirós Quirós
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña †
Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Antonio Arcari †
Titular Archbishop of Caeciri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Rafael Quirós Quirós (2006)
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña † (1998)
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Román Arrieta Villalobos † (1961)
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Gennaro Verolino † (1951)
Titular Archbishop of Corinthus
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q43963972

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2017
ob: CB, 28 Nov 2017
c2+: CB, 19 Jan 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 235, Number 19,667

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