Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar, S.D.B.

Bishop Emeritus of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Feb 1951		Born
6 Jan 1970	18.8	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
27 Oct 1979	28.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
27 Feb 1998	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
25 Mar 1998	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
6 Jul 2026	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador

MicroData Summary
Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar
Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar S.D.B.
(born 16 Feb 1951)
Bishop Emeritus of Zacatecoluca

Ad Limina - February 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Cutumay, Diocese of Santa Ana
Ordained Bishop Panoramico Manuel Toledo Valle, Stadium, Zacatecoluca, Diocese of Zacatecoluca

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Zacatecoluca.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Managua
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Fernando Sáenz Lacalle †
Archbishop of San Salvador
Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.
Bishop of San Miguel

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo, S.D.B. † (1968)
Archbishop of Managua
Bishop Marco Antonio García y Suárez † (1953)
Bishop of Granada
Archbishop Antonio Taffi † (1947)
Titular Archbishop of Sergiopolis
Benedetto Cardinal Aloisi Masella † (1919)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Secretary of State
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez, C.R.S. (2006)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cutumay, Diocese of Santa Ana
Ordained Bishop	Panoramico Manuel Toledo Valle, Stadium, Zacatecoluca, Diocese of Zacatecoluca

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1334497

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Number 13,259
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 236, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2026

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