Bishop Miguel Angel García y Aráuz †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Jalapa, Guatemala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Oct 1911		Born
6 Jan 1939	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Guatemala
16 May 1944	32.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Guatemala
16 May 1944	32.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sophene
3 Sep 1944	32.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sophene
30 Apr 1951	39.5	Appointed	Bishop of Jalapa, Guatemala
29 Jan 1987	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Jalapa, Guatemala
28 Dec 2003	92.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Jalapa, Guatemala

MicroData Summary
Miguel Angel García y Aráuz
Bishop Miguel Angel García y Aráuz
(born 8 Oct 1911, died 28 Dec 2003)
Bishop Emeritus of Jalapa

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Guatemala

a priest for 64.9 years
a bishop for 59.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami †
Titular Archbishop of Damascus
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Mariano Rossell y Arellano †
Archbishop of Guatemala
Bishop Jorge García Caballeros †
Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Giuseppe Beltrami † (1940)
Titular Archbishop of Damascus
Luigi Cardinal Maglione † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. † (1948)
Bishop Gabriel Peñate Rodríguez (1984)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. † (1983)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6015630

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1944, Number 42
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)

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