Bishop Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus

Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala

Motto: Adveniat Regnum Tuum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Aug 1963		Born
3 Dec 1994	31.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Jalapa, Guatemala
22 Feb 2016	52.5	Appointed	Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala
21 May 2016	52.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, Guatemala
24 Mar 2026	62.6	Appointed	Bishop of Escuintla, Guatemala

MicroData Summary
Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus
Bishop Ángel Antonio Recinos Lemus
(born 2 Aug 1963)
Bishop of Escuintla

Ad Limina - May 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Azulco
Ordained Bishop Colegio San Benito, Esquipulas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Escuintla.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Jorge Mario Avila del Aguila, C.M. †
Bishop of Jalapa
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J.
Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Julio Edgar Cabrera Ovalle
Bishop of Jalapa
Bishop Bernabé de Jesús Sagastume Lemus, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop of Santa Rosa de Lima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Gonzalo de Villa y Vásquez, S.J. (2004)
Bishop of Sololá-Chimaltenango
Rodolfo Cardinal Quezada Toruño † (1972)
Archbishop of Guatemala
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q23063199

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2016
ob: CB, 3 Mar 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 228, Number 18,916
ab: Bollettino, 24 Mar 2026

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