Bishop José Leonardo Lemos Montanet

Bishop of Orense, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 May 1953		Born
19 May 1979	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
16 Dec 2011	58.5	Appointed	Bishop of Orense, Spain
11 Feb 2012	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Orense, Spain

MicroData Summary
José Leonardo Lemos Montanet
Bishop José Leonardo Lemos Montanet
(born 31 May 1953)
Bishop of Orense

Ad Limina - March 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Barallobre

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Orense.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Renzo Fratini
Titular Archbishop of Botriana
Bishop Luis Quinteiro Fiuza
Bishop of Tui-Vigo
Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra
Archbishop of Valencia
Bishop Camilo Lorenzo Iglesias †
Bishop of Astorga
Bishop José Diéguez Reboredo †
Bishop Emeritus of Tui-Vigo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio (1993)
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Archbishop Antonio María Rouco Varela (1976)
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Archbishop Ángel Suquía Goicoechea † (1966)
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
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 José Prieto Fernández (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 12613939
WikiData: Q1501166

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Dec 2011
ob/c2: CB, 23 Dec 2011
c3+: CB, 27 Jan 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 209, Number 17,255

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