Bishop Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 May 1932		Born
25 Mar 1965	32.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
24 Apr 1976	43.9	Appointed	Bishop of Barahona, Dominican Republic
28 Aug 1976	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Barahona, Dominican Republic
7 Dec 1999	67.5	Resigned	Bishop of Barahona, Dominican Republic
11 Aug 2018	86.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Barahona, Dominican Republic

MicroData Summary
Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos
Bishop Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos S.D.B.
(born 11 May 1932, died 11 Aug 2018)
Bishop Emeritus of Barahona

Ad Limina - July 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Cabirmota, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Santo Domingo, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Bishop Holy Cross, Church, Barahona, Diocese of Barahona
Death Place Jarabacoa, Diocese of La Vega
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Barahona, Diocese of Barahona

a priest for 53.3 years
a bishop for 41.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
José Humberto Cardinal Quintero Parra †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Consecrator:
Octavio Antonio Cardinal Beras Rojas †
Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Juan Antonio Flores Santana †
Bishop of La Vega
Bishop Thomas Francis (Tomás Francisco) Reilly, C.Ss.R. †
Bishop of San Juan de la Maguana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Octavio Antonio Cardinal Beras Rojas † (1945)
Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
Archbishop Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt † (1942)
Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
Archbishop George Joseph (Jorge José) Caruana † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Sebastea
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez (2000)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cabirmota, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Priest	Cathedral, Santo Domingo, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Bishop	Holy Cross, Church, Barahona, Diocese of Barahona
Death Place	Jarabacoa, Diocese of La Vega
Buried Place (Original)	Cathedral, Barahona, Diocese of Barahona

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1390549

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 124
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Additions/Corrections (front)
d: CB, 11 Aug 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 36, Number 2,207
c1: CB, 20 Sep 2025

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