Archbishop Santiago García Aracil †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 May 1940		Born
21 Sep 1963	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valencia, Spain
20 Nov 1984	44.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia, Spain
20 Nov 1984	44.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Croae
27 Dec 1984	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Croae
31 May 1988	48.0	Appointed	Bishop of Jaén, Spain
9 Jul 2004	64.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain
21 May 2015	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain
28 Dec 2018	78.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida-Badajoz, Spain

MicroData Summary
Santiago García Aracil
Archbishop Santiago García Aracil
(born 8 May 1940, died 28 Dec 2018)
Archbishop Emeritus of Mérida-Badajoz

Ad Limina - January 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia
Death Place Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia

a priest for 55.2 years
a bishop for 34.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Miguel Roca Cabanellas †
Archbishop of Valencia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gabino Díaz Merchán †
Archbishop of Oviedo
Bishop Rafael González Moralejo †
Bishop of Huelva

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Miguel Roca Cabanellas † (1966)
Archbishop of Valencia
Archbishop Antonio Riberi † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Dara
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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:
Archbishop Francisco Cerro Chaves (2007)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 7126766
WikiData: Q555865

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 21 May 2015
d: CB, 28 Dec 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 90, Number 7,635
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 96, Additions/Corrections (front)
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Additions/Corrections (front)

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