Bishop Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, O.M.I.

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Machiques, Venezuela

Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Sep 1934		Born
14 Mar 1959	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
24 Jan 1997	62.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela
24 Jan 1997	62.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum
26 Apr 1997	62.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lari Castellum
9 Apr 2011	76.5	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Machiques, Venezuela
15 Mar 2019	84.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Machiques, Venezuela
14 Dec 2019	85.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Machiques, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Ramiro Díaz Sánchez
Bishop Ramiro Díaz Sánchez O.M.I.
(born 14 Sep 1934)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Machiques

Ad Limina - June 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Villaverde de Arcayos, Spain
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Machiques, Vicariate Apostolic of Machiques

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of Machiques.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo
Archbishop of Mérida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap.
Titular Bishop of Leptiminus
Bishop Felipe González González, O.F.M. Cap.
Titular Bishop of Sinnuara

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (1983)
Archbishop of Mérida
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1567196

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 9 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Number 12,954
aadm: CB, 13 Mar 2019

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