Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas

Secretary Emeritus of the Dicastery for Evangelization

Archbishop Emeritus of Villavicencio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1944		Born
29 Nov 1969	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bogotá, Colombia
8 Mar 1996	51.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá, Colombia
8 Mar 1996	51.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Troyna
13 Apr 1996	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Troyna
16 Jul 2002	57.5	Appointed	Bishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
3 Jul 2004	59.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Villavicencio, Colombia
31 May 2007	62.4	Appointed	Vice President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America
13 May 2011	66.3	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization
2 Sep 2020	75.6	Retired	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization

MicroData Summary for José Octavio Ruiz Arenas
(VIAF: 316506695; WikiData: Q1709542)
Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (born 21 Dec 1944) Secretary Emeritus of Evangelization

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia
Ordained Bishop Cathedral Basilica, Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia

Please contact the Archbishop through the Dicastery for Evangelization.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque †
Titular Archbishop of Cariana
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz †
Archbishop of Bogotá
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Archbishop Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B.
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz † (1971)
Archbishop of Bogotá
Archbishop Angelo Palmas † (1964)
Titular Archbishop of Vibiana
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Augusto Campos Flórez (2020)
Bishop Alejandro Díaz García (2024)

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 31 May 2007
ab: Bollettino, 13 May 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,741
r: AM, 16 May 2021

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