Bishop Cándido Cárdenas Villalba †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay

Motto: Sembrar Y Regar

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Oct 1941		Born
12 Jul 1970	28.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Villarrica, Paraguay
6 Jul 1998	56.7	Appointed	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
20 Sep 1998	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
16 Jun 2018	76.7	Retired	Bishop of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay
18 Aug 2026	84.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Benjamín Aceval, Paraguay

MicroData Summary
Cándido Cárdenas Villalba
Bishop Cándido Cárdenas Villalba
(born 3 Oct 1941, died 18 Aug 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Benjamín Aceval

Ad Limina - September 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Supucia, Archdiocese of Asunción
Ordained Priest Trier, Diocese of Trier, Germany
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Benjamín Aceval, Diocese of Benjamín Aceval
Death Place Villa Hayes, Diocese of Benjamín Aceval

a priest for 56.0 years
a bishop for 27.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Felipe Santiago Benitez Avalos †
Archbishop of Asunción
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Celso Yegros Estigarribia †
Bishop of Carapeguá
Bishop Mario Melanio Medina Salinas
Coadjutor Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Felipe Santiago Benitez Avalos † (1961)
Archbishop of Asunción
Archbishop Juan José Aníbal Mena Porta † (1936)
Archbishop of Asunción
Archbishop Juan Sinforiano Bogarín † (1895)
Archbishop of Asunción
Bishop Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, S.D.B. † (1893)
Titular Bishop of Oëa
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Amancio Francisco Benítez Candia (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1149793

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 153, Number 13,431
r: Bollettino, 16 Jun 2018
d: CB, 18 Aug 2026

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