Alvaro Leonel Cardinal Ramazzini Imeri

Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto

Motto: ¡Ay De Mi Si No Evangelizo!

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Jul 1947		Born
27 Jun 1971	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Guatemala
15 Dec 1988	41.4	Appointed	Bishop of San Marcos, Guatemala
6 Jan 1989	41.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Marcos, Guatemala
14 May 2012	64.8	Appointed	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
14 Jul 2012	64.9	Installed	Bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala
5 Oct 2019	72.2	Elevated to Cardinal
5 Oct 2019	72.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto
10 Oct 2021	74.2	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto

MicroData Summary
Alvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri
Alvaro Leonel Cardinal Ramazzini Imeri
(born 16 Jul 1947)
Bishop of Huehuetenango

Ad Limina - March 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop
Consistory - 2019: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Guatemala
Ordained Priest St. James, Cathedral, Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Guatemala
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Diocese of Huehuetenango.

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Ordained Priest by:
Mario Cardinal Casariego y Acevedo, C.R.S. †
Archbishop of Guatemala
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edward Idris Cassidy †
Titular Archbishop of Amantia
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Consecrator of:
Bishop José Benedicto Moscoso Miranda (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Ludwig Schick (1998)
Bishop Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez † (2015)
Bishop Félix Eduardo Antonio Calderón Cruz (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Guatemala
Ordained Priest	St. James, Cathedral, Ciudad de Guatemala, Archdiocese of Guatemala
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 46586496
WikiData: Q251223

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 113, Number 10,032
ab: Bollettino, 14 May 2012
card: Bollettino, 1 Sep 2019
cpri: Bollettino, 5 Oct 2019
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 5 Oct 2019
i: Bollettino, 5 Oct 2021

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