Bishop Tomás Angel Romero Gross, O.P. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Puyo, Ecuador

Titular Bishop of Molicunza

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Mar 1918		Born
18 Jan 1942	23.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
5 Jul 1973	55.2	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Canelos, Ecuador
5 Jul 1973	55.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Molicunza
15 Aug 1973	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Molicunza
28 Feb 1990	71.9	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Puyo, Ecuador

MicroData Summary
Tomás Angel Romero Gross
Bishop Tomás Angel Romero Gross O.P.
(born 21 Mar 1918, died 28 Feb 1990)
Vicar Apostolic of Puyo

Event Place
Birth Place Quito, Archdiocese of Quito

a priest for 48.1 years
a bishop for 16.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega, S.J. †
Archbishop of Quito
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Antonio José González Zumárraga †
Titular Bishop of Tagarata
Bishop Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín †
Titular Bishop of Cellae in Proconsulari

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega, S.J. † (1964)
Archbishop of Quito
Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri † (1941)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64777797

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138

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