Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo Rivera †

Deceased

Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia

Motto: Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Oct 1861		Born
8 Sep 1885	23.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Popayán, Colombia
18 Oct 1910	49.0	Appointed	Bishop of Antioquía, Colombia
24 Feb 1911	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Antioquía, Colombia
1915	53.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Jericó, Colombia
7 Feb 1917	55.3	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
15 Nov 1923	62.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia
9 Apr 1924	62.4	Installed	Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia
7 Nov 1940	79.0	Died	Archbishop of Popayán, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo Rivera
(born 18 Oct 1861, died 7 Nov 1940)
Archbishop of Popayán

Event Place
Birth Place Buga, Diocese of Popayán
Ordained Bishop Buga, Archdiocese of Popayán
Death Place Palmira, Archdiocese of Popayán

a priest for 55.1 years
a bishop for 29.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop José Telésphor Paúl y Vargas, S.J. †
Archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, C.M. †
Archbishop of Popayán
Assisted by:
Father Victor Saavedra
Priest of Popayán
Father Jorge Salcedo
Priest of Popayán

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Manuel Antonio Arboleda y Scarpetta, C.M. † (1907)
Archbishop of Popayán
Archbishop Francesco Ragonesi † (1904)
Titular Archbishop of Myra
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez † (1914)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Miguel Ángel Builes Gómez † (1924)
Archbishop Pedro María Rodríguez Andrade † (1924)
Archbishop José Ignacio López Umaña † (1924)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6007453

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1927
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1941
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 59
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1911, Number 19

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