Bishop Félix Lázaro Martinez, Sch. P.

Bishop Emeritus of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Mar 1936		Born
9 Apr 1961	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of the Pious Schools
20 Mar 2002	66.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
25 Apr 2002	66.1	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
11 Jun 2003	67.2	Succeeded	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
22 Dec 2015	79.8	Retired	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico

MicroData Summary
Félix Lázaro Martinez
Bishop Félix Lázaro Martinez Sch. P.
(born 2 Mar 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Ponce

Ad Limina - June 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Logroño, Spain

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ponce.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Ricardo Antonio Suriñach Carreras †
Bishop of Ponce
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio
Titular Archbishop of Amiternum
Bishop Iñaki Mallona Txertudi, C.P. †
Bishop of Arecibo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Ricardo Antonio Suriñach Carreras † (1975)
Bishop of Ponce
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver † (1964)
Bishop of Ponce
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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):

VIAF: 209754207
WikiData: Q768735

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 167, Number 14,179
r: Bollettino, 22 Dec 2015

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