Archbishop Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Mar 1930		Born
8 Dec 1956	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
30 Nov 1970	40.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
30 Nov 1970	40.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Naissus
10 Jan 1971	40.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Naissus
20 Sep 1975	45.4	Appointed	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
4 Apr 1987	57.0	Appointed	Bishop of Quetzaltenango, Los Altos, Guatemala
13 Feb 1996	65.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
19 Apr 2007	77.0	Retired	Archbishop of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala
26 Aug 2020	90.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán, Guatemala

MicroData Summary
Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras
Archbishop Victor Hugo Martínez Contreras
(born 29 Mar 1930, died 26 Aug 2020)
Archbishop Emeritus of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapán

Event Place
Birth Place San Felipe
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Huehuetenango, Diocese of Huehuetenango
Death Place Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala
Buried Place (Original) Villa de Guadalupe, Cemetery, Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Santiago de Guatemala

a priest for 63.7 years
a bishop for 49.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Celestino Miguel Fernández Pérez, O.F.M. †
Bishop of San Marcos
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hugo Mark Gerbermann, M.M. †
Bishop of Huehuetenango
Bishop José Ramiro Pellecer Samayoa †
Titular Bishop of Teglata in Proconsulari

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Pablo Vizcaino Prado (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Mario Enrique Ríos Mont, C.M. (1974)
Bishop Fernando Claudio Gamalero González † (1986)
Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Núñez (1997)
Bishop Raúl Antonio Martinez Paredes (1999)
Archbishop Victor Hugo Palma Paúl (2001)
Archbishop Mario Alberto Molina Palma, O.A.R. (2005)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1670753

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 19 Apr 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 18, Number 972
d: CB, 26 Aug 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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