Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén

Bishop Emeritus of Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Motto: Te He Glorificado En La Tierra

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Dec 1949		Born
8 Jul 1977	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of San José de Costa Rica
4 Jun 2003	53.4	Appointed	Bishop of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
25 Jul 2003	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
20 Jun 2026	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Puntarenas, Costa Rica

MicroData Summary
Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén
Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén
(born 22 Dec 1949)
Bishop Emeritus of Puntarenas

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

Event Place
Birth Place San Rafael de Oreamuno, Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica
Ordained Priest Cathedral, San José de Costa Rica, Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica
Ordained Bishop Lito Pérez, Stadium, Puntarenas, Diocese of Puntarenas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Puntarenas.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña †
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop José Francisco Ulloa Rojas
Bishop of Limón
Archbishop Román Arrieta Villalobos †
Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Ureña † (1998)
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Román Arrieta Villalobos † (1961)
Archbishop of San José de Costa Rica
Archbishop Gennaro Verolino † (1951)
Titular Archbishop of Corinthus
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Gabriel Enrique Montero Umaña, O.F.M. Conv. (2014)
Bishop José Manuel Garita Herrera (2014)
Bishop Javier Gerardo Román Arias (2015)
Bishop Mario Enrique Quirós Quirós (2017)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2032753

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,430
r: Bollettino, 20 Jun 2026

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