Bishop Juan Fernando Franco Sánchez

Bishop of Caldas, Colombia

Apostolic Administrator of Jericó

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jun 1975		Born
29 Mar 2003	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Caldas, Colombia
16 Dec 2021	46.5	Appointed	Administrator of Caldas, Colombia
15 Oct 2022	47.3	Appointed	Bishop of Caldas, Colombia
9 Dec 2022	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Caldas, Colombia
13 Jul 2026	51.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Jericó, Colombia
5 Sep 2026	51.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Jericó, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Juan Fernando Franco Sánchez
Bishop Juan Fernando Franco Sánchez
(born 1 Jun 1975)
Bishop of Caldas

Event Place
Birth Place Barbosa, Archdiocese of Medellín
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, Cathedral, Caldas, Diocese of Caldas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Caldas.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor
Titular Archbishop of Illici
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
Archbishop of Medellín
Archbishop Luis José Rueda Aparicio
Archbishop of Bogotá

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor (2008)
Titular Archbishop of Illici
Archbishop Dominique François Joseph Mamberti (2002)
Titular Archbishop of Sagone
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q114682358

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2022
ob: CB, 5 Nov 2022
c2: CB, 21 Nov 2022
c34: CB, 9 Dec 2022
aadm: CB, 13 Jul 2026

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