Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Cardinal Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Nov 1912		Born
4 Jul 1937	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
23 Oct 1949	36.9	Appointed	Bishop of Ambato, Ecuador
4 Dec 1949	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ambato, Ecuador
10 Apr 1969	56.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
8 Dec 1982	70.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Galápagos, Ecuador
18 May 1984	71.5	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Galápagos, Ecuador
7 Dec 1989	77.0	Retired	Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador
1990²	77.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ibarra, Ecuador
26 Nov 1994	82.0	Elevated to Cardinal
26 Nov 1994	82.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
25 Jul 1995	82.7	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Ibarra, Ecuador
6 Apr 2000	87.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Echeverría Ruiz
Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Cardinal Echeverría Ruiz O.F.M.
(born 12 Nov 1912, died 6 Apr 2000)
Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Consistory - 1994: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Event Place
Birth Place Cotacachi, Diocese of Ibarra
Ordained Bishop San Francisco, Church, Quito, Archdiocese of Quito
Death Place Quito, Archdiocese of Quito

a priest for 62.7 years
a bishop for 50.3 years
a cardinal for 5.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Efrem Forni †
Titular Archbishop of Darnis
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alberto Maria Ordóñez Crespo †
Bishop of Bolivar
Bishop Nicanor Carlos Gavinales Chamorro †
Bishop of Portoviejo (Porto Vecchio)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Efrem Forni † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Darnis
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán † (1968)
Bishop Hugolino Felix Cerasuolo Stacey, O.F.M. † (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba † (1954)
Archbishop Manuel de Jesús Serrano Abad † (1954)
Bishop Juán Maria Riofrio, O.P. † (1956)
Bishop José Gabriel Diaz Cueva † (1964)
Bishop Jorge Francisco Mosquera Barreiro, O.F.M. † (1964)
Archbishop José Mario Ruiz Navas † (1969)
Antonio José Cardinal González Zumárraga † (1969)
Archbishop Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín † (1969)
Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga † (1972)
Bishop Luis Enrique Orellana Ricaurte, S.J. † (1978)
Bishop Serafín Luis Alberto Cartagena Ocaña, O.F.M. (1983)
Bishop Luis Oswaldo Pérez Calderón † (1984)
Bishop Germán Trajano Pavón Puente † (1989)
Bishop Victor Manuel Maldonado Barreno, O.F.M. † (1990)
Bishop Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo, M.C.C.I. † (1990)
Bishop Clímaco Jacinto Zarauz Carrillo † (1990)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/198151
VIAF: 16917736
WikiData: Q822896

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 109
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 159, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 406, Ascendance

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