Bishop Héctor Gabino Romero †

Deceased

Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Aug 1924		Born
20 Dec 1947	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
26 May 1978	53.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina
26 May 1978	53.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tagarata
15 Aug 1978	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tagarata
7 Jan 1984	59.4	Appointed	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
25 Mar 1984	59.6	Installed	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
22 May 1999	74.7	Died	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina

MicroData Summary
Héctor Gabino Romero
Bishop Héctor Gabino Romero
(born 4 Aug 1924, died 22 May 1999)
Bishop of Rafaela

Event Place
Birth Place Bahía Blanca
Ordained Bishop N.D. de la Paix, Cathedral, Lomas de Zamora, Diocese of Lomas de Zamora

a priest for 51.4 years
a bishop for 20.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Desiderio Elso Collino †
Bishop of Lomas de Zamora
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Miguel Esteban Hesayne †
Bishop of Viedma
Bishop Rodolfo Bufano †
Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Desiderio Elso Collino † (1972)
Bishop of Lomas de Zamora
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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:
Bishop Hugo Norberto Santiago (1985)
Bishop Gustavo Gabriel Zurbriggen (1990)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop José María Arancedo (1988)
Bishop Juan Carlos Maccarone † (1993)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11864152

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 48, Number 3,316
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 49, Additions/Corrections (front)

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