Bishop Orlando Romero Cabrera

Bishop Emeritus of Canelones, Uruguay

Motto: Anunciaré Tu Nombre A Mis Hermanos

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1933		Born
15 Dec 1957	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Montevideo, Uruguay
26 May 1986	52.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
26 May 1986	52.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gubaliana
13 Jul 1986	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gubaliana
25 Oct 1994	60.8	Appointed	Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay
23 Feb 2010	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Canelones, Uruguay

MicroData Summary
Orlando Romero Cabrera
Bishop Orlando Romero Cabrera
(born 21 Dec 1933)
Bishop Emeritus of Canelones

Ad Limina - September 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Fagina, Archdiocese of Montevideo
Ordained Bishop N.S. del Carmen de la Aguada, Montevideo, Archdiocese of Montevideo

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Canelones.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Montevideo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Raúl Horacio Scarrone Carrero †
Titular Bishop of Ulpiana
Bishop Pablo Jaime Galimberti di Vietri
Bishop of San José de Mayo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. † (1972)
Archbishop of Montevideo
Archbishop Augustin-Joseph Antoine Sépinski, O.F.M. † (1965)
Titular Archbishop of Assuras
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Leopoldo Hermes Garin Bruzzone (2002)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Serapio del Castillo Estrada, S.J. † (1988)
Bishop Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal, S.D.B. (1995)
Bishop Alberto Francisco María Sanguinetti Montero (2010)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2031065

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 99, Number 8,545
bpd/opd: CB, 22 Sep 2026

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