Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas

Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Mar 1959		Born
15 Aug 1982	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Vicente, El Salvador
19 Jan 2002	42.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
19 Jan 2002	42.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thibica
23 Mar 2002	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thibica
4 Jun 2005	46.2	Appointed	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
9 Jul 2005	46.3	Installed	Bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador
27 Dec 2008	49.7	Appointed	Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
14 Feb 2009	49.9	Installed	Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador

MicroData Summary
José Luis Escobar Alas
Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas
(born 10 Mar 1959)
Archbishop of San Salvador

Ad Limina - February 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place San Salvador

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of San Salvador.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo †
Bishop of San Vicente
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giacinto Berloco
Titular Archbishop of Fidenae
Bishop Eduardo Alas Alfaro †
Bishop of Chalatenango

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo † (1982)
Bishop of San Vicente
Bishop Pedro Arnoldo Aparicio y Quintanilla, S.D.B. † (1946)
Bishop of San Vicente
Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, O.F.M. † (1929)
Titular Archbishop of Perge
Bonaventura Cardinal Cerretti † (1914)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Óscar Álvarez Orellana (2024)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Constantino Barrera Morales (2012)
Bishop William Ernesto Iraheta Rivera (2016)
Bishop Reinaldo Sorto Martínez (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q433299

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 27 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 166, Number 14,154

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