Bishop Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Machala, Ecuador

Motto: In Charitate Et Humilitate

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Oct 1933		Born
21 Jul 1957	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Quito, Ecuador
5 Dec 1963	30.1	Incardinated	Priest of Latacunga, Ecuador
14 Jan 1982	48.2	Appointed	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
14 Feb 1982	48.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
22 Feb 2010	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Machala, Ecuador
24 Jun 2026	92.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Machala, Ecuador

MicroData Summary
Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia
Bishop Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia
(born 23 Oct 1933, died 24 Jun 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Machala

Ad Limina - October 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Pujili, Archdiocese of Quito
Ordained Bishop Hermano Miguel College, Latacunga, Diocese of Latacunga

a priest for 68.9 years
a bishop for 44.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop José Mario Ruiz Navas †
Bishop of Latacunga
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba †
Bishop of Riobamba
Archbishop Antonio José González Zumárraga †
Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop José Mario Ruiz Navas † (1969)
Bishop of Latacunga
Archbishop Giovanni Ferrofino † (1961)
Titular Archbishop of Zenopolis in Isauria
Archbishop Armando Lombardi † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea Philippi
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza (2004)
Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (2007)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Victoriano Naranjo Tovar (2003)
Bishop Segundo René Coba Galarza (2006)
Bishop Vicente Danilo Echeverría Verdesoto (2006)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1637928

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 73, Number 5,850
bpd/opd/inca: CB, 10 Sep 2024
d: CB, 24 Jun 2026

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