Bishop Alejandro Figueroa Medina †

Deceased

Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Mar 1925		Born
5 Mar 1950	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
12 Mar 1986	60.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Barinas, Venezuela
12 Mar 1986	60.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forconium
24 May 1986	61.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forconium
21 Feb 1995	69.9	Appointed	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela
29 Sep 2000	75.5	Died	Bishop of Guanare, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Alejandro Figueroa Medina
Bishop Alejandro Figueroa Medina
(born 16 Mar 1925, died 29 Sep 2000)
Bishop of Guanare

Event Place
Birth Place Colón
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, San Cristóbal, Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela

a priest for 50.5 years
a bishop for 14.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Marco Tulio Ramírez Roa †
Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Bishop Alejandro Fernández Feo-Tinoco †
Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Venezuela

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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: Q64733107

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105, Number 9,145
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Deceased Cardinals (back), Necrology (back)

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