Bishop Julio María Elías Montoya, O.F.M.

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia

Titular Bishop of Cumae

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Feb 1945		Born
1 Sep 1960	15.5	Entered	Member of Order of Friars Minor
2 Sep 1961	16.5	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor
14 Jul 1968	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
17 Nov 1986	41.7	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia
17 Nov 1986	41.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cumae
25 Mar 1987	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cumae
22 Feb 2020	75.0	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of El Beni o Beni, Bolivia

MicroData Summary
Julio María Elías Montoya
Bishop Julio María Elías Montoya O.F.M.
(born 7 Feb 1945)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of El Beni o Beni

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

Event Place
Birth Place Medina del Pomar, Spain
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Trinidad

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of El Beni o Beni.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Carlos Anasagasti Zulueta, O.F.M. †
Titular Bishop of Caltadria
Bishop Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, O.F.M. †
Titular Bishop of Salapia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló (1985)
Titular Archbishop of Tamada
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francisco Focardi Mazzocchi, O.F.M. † (2007)
Bishop Roberto Bordi, O.F.M. (2011)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 31157413810216052136
WikiData: Q1712373

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 103, Number 8,966
ente/prof: CB, 9 May 2021

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