Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Riobamba, Ecuador

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jan 1910		Born
29 Jun 1936	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 Mar 1954	44.1	Appointed	Bishop of Bolivar, Ecuador
26 May 1954	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bolivar, Ecuador
20 Mar 1985	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Riobamba, Ecuador
31 Aug 1988	78.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Riobamba, Ecuador

MicroData Summary
Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba
Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba
(born 29 Jan 1910, died 31 Aug 1988)
Bishop Emeritus of Riobamba

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place San Antonio de Imbabura, Diocese of Ibarra
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Ibarra, Diocese of Ibarra
Death Place Quito, Archdiocese of Quito

a priest for 52.1 years
a bishop for 34.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Opilio Rossi †
Titular Archbishop of Ancyra
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Nicanor Carlos Gavinales Chamorro †
Bishop of Portoviejo (Porto Vecchio)
Bishop Bernardino Carlos Guillermo Honorato Echeverría Ruiz, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Ambato

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Opilio Rossi † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Ancyra
Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench † (1935)
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
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

Ordained Priest:
Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga † (1957)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales † (1955)
Bishop Angelo Barbisotti, F.S.C.J. † (1958)
Archbishop Ernesto Alvarez Alvarez, S.D.B. † (1968)
Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga † (1972)
Bishop Néstor Rafael Herrera Heredia (1982)
Bishop Victor Alejandro Corral Mantilla (1982)
Bishop Gonzalo López Marañon, O.C.D. † (1984)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 4935461
WikiData: Q1398412

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1954, Number 32

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