Bishop Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro

Bishop of Pasto, Colombia

Apostolic Administrator of Mocoa-Sibundoy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 May 1968		Born
6 Sep 1997	29.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cartago, Colombia
26 Jun 2015	47.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cali, Colombia
26 Jun 2015	47.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nova
25 Jul 2015	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nova
1 Oct 2020	52.3	Appointed	Bishop of Pasto, Colombia
21 Nov 2020	52.4	Installed	Bishop of Pasto, Colombia
29 May 2025	56.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Mocoa-Sibundoy, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro
Bishop Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro
(born 31 May 1968)
Bishop of Pasto

Event Place
Birth Place Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cathedral, Cartago, Diocese of Cartago

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Pasto.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero
Titular Archbishop of Victoriana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Darío de Jesús Monsalve Mejía
Archbishop of Cali
Bishop José Alejandro Castaño Arbeláez, O.A.R.
Bishop of Cartago

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ettore Balestrero (2013)
Titular Archbishop of Victoriana
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B. (1991)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Jaime Alberto Cabrera Arcos (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Ordained Bishop	Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Cathedral, Cartago, Diocese of Cartago

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q20752296

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2015
ob: CB, 29 Jun 2015
c2+: CB, 23 Jul 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,553
ab: Bollettino, 1 Oct 2020
i: AM, 19 Nov 2020
aadm: CB, 3 Jun 2025

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