Bishop José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro, O.A.R.

Bishop Emeritus of Cajamarca, Peru

Motto: Via, Veritas Et Vita

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Aug 1954		Born
26 Aug 1978	24.0	Professed	Member of Order of Augustinian Recollects
19 Jul 1980	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Augustinian Recollects
27 Mar 2002	47.5	Appointed	Prelate of Chota, Peru
5 May 2002	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Prelate of Chota, Peru
12 Oct 2004	50.1	Appointed	Bishop of Cajamarca, Peru
19 Dec 2004	50.3	Installed	Bishop of Cajamarca, Peru
23 Oct 2021	67.1	Resigned	Bishop of Cajamarca, Peru

MicroData Summary
José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro
Bishop José Carmelo Martínez Lázaro O.A.R.
(born 21 Aug 1954)
Bishop Emeritus of Cajamarca

Ad Limina - May 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Luezas, Spain
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Coso Taurino, Chota, Territorial Prelature of Chota

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Cajamarca.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez, O.A.R.
Bishop of Chachapoyas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Rino Passigato
Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
Bishop Ángel Francisco Simón Piorno
Bishop of Cajamarca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Emiliano Antonio Cisneros Martínez, O.A.R. (1994)
Bishop of Chachapoyas
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Fortunato Pablo Urcey, O.A.R. (2005)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1388377

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 167, Number 14,183
r: Bollettino, 23 Oct 2021

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