Bishop Héctor Julio López Hurtado, S.D.B.

Bishop Emeritus of Girardot, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jul 1941		Born
29 Jan 1958	16.5	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
30 Jun 1968	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
15 Dec 1987	46.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Ariari, Colombia
15 Dec 1987	46.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Elicroca
27 Feb 1988	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Elicroca
29 Oct 1999	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Granada en Colombia
15 Jun 2001	59.8	Appointed	Bishop of Girardot, Colombia
11 Jul 2018	76.9	Retired	Bishop of Girardot, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Héctor Julio López Hurtado
Bishop Héctor Julio López Hurtado S.D.B.
(born 23 Jul 1941)
Bishop Emeritus of Girardot

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Tunja, Diocese of Tunja
Ordained Priest Benedickbeuron, Germany
Ordained Bishop N.S. del Carmen, Granada, Vicariate Apostolic of Ariari

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Girardot.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Acerbi
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jesús María Coronado Caro, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Duitama
Bishop Héctor Jaramillo Duque, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Sincelejo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (1974)
Titular Archbishop of Zella
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Camilo Fernando Castrellón Pizano, S.D.B. (2001)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1642803

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 109, Number 9,613
r: Bollettino, 11 Jul 2018

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