Bishop Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta

Bishop Emeritus of Riohacha, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Dec 1942		Born
8 Dec 1972	29.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
21 Feb 1998	55.1	Appointed	Bishop of Girardota, Colombia
26 Mar 1998	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Girardota, Colombia
13 May 2005	62.3	Appointed	Bishop of Riohacha, Colombia
2 Jul 2005	62.5	Installed	Bishop of Riohacha, Colombia
22 Apr 2020	77.3	Retired	Bishop of Riohacha, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta
Bishop Héctor Ignacio Salah Zuleta
(born 24 Dec 1942)
Bishop Emeritus of Riohacha

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Girardota, Diocese of Girardota

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Riohacha.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S. †
Archbishop of Medellín
Bishop Flavio Calle Zapata
Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Paolo Romeo (1984)
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Guillermo Orozco Montoya (2006)
Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero † (2012)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11864154

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Number 13,260
r: Bollettino, 22 Apr 2020
opd/i: CB, 19 Jul 2024

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