Bishop Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Motto: Unus Sapiens Dominus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Sep 1933		Born
30 May 1967	33.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ponce, Puerto Rico
4 Mar 1976	42.4	Appointed	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
30 Apr 1976	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
2 May 1976	42.6	Installed	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Apr 1990³	56.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
25 Jan 1992	58.3	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Arecibo, Puerto Rico
6 Jul 2011	77.7	Retired	Bishop of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
5 Aug 2018	84.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas
Bishop Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas
(born 25 Sep 1933, died 5 Aug 2018)
Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez

Ad Limina - June 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lajas, Diocese of Ponce
Ordained Bishop Coliseo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Diocese of Mayagüez
Death Place La Concepción, Hospital, San Germán, Diocese of Mayagüez
Buried Place (Original) Our Lady of the Candelaria, Cathedral, Mayagüez, Diocese of Mayagüez

a priest for 51.1 years
a bishop for 42.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †
Bishop of Ponce
Principal Consecrator:
Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez †
Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver †
Bishop of Ponce
Bishop Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, C.Ss.R. †
Bishop of Arecibo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez † (1960)
Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos (1985)
Bishop Alberto Arturo Figueroa Morales (1990)
Father Gerardo Antonio Vargas Cruz, O.F.M. (2006)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Anthony Rosazza (1978)
Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres (2007)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 192200944
WikiData: Q1737002

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2011
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 210, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 5 Aug 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)

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