Bishop Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas

Vicar Apostolic of Caroní, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Dec 1968		Born
14 Aug 1993	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
27 Apr 2021	52.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Caroní, Venezuela
26 Jun 2021	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Vicar Apostolic of Caroní, Venezuela
20 Jul 2021	52.6	Installed	Vicar Apostolic of Caroní, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas
Bishop Gonzalo Alfredo Ontiveros Vivas
(born 5 Dec 1968)
Vicar Apostolic of Caroní

Event Place
Birth Place El Valle Capacho, Diocese of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Ordained Bishop Santo Tomas de Aquino, Seminary, Palmira

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of Caroní.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez †
Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Juan Alberto Ayala Ramírez
Titular Bishop of Rusibisir
Bishop Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M.
Titular Bishop of Turris Rotunda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodríguez † (1990)
Bishop of San Cristóbal de Venezuela
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q106634483

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 27 Apr 2021
ob: CB, 12 Jun 2021
c2+: CB, 19 Jun 2021
i: AM, 16 Jul 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 248, Number 20,688

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