Bishop Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga, S.J.

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Soddo, Ethiopia

Titular Bishop of Vulturia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Sep 1938		Born
13 Dec 1969	31.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
5 Jan 2007	68.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo-Hosanna, Ethiopia
5 Jan 2007	68.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vulturia
4 Mar 2007	68.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vulturia
20 Jan 2010	71.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia
12 Jan 2014	75.3	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Soddo, Ethiopia

MicroData Summary
Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga
Bishop Rodrigo Mejía Saldarriaga S.J.
(born 5 Sep 1938)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Soddo

Event Place
Birth Place Medellin, Archdiocese of Medellín, Colombia
Ordained Bishop In Front of, Sainte Trinité, Cathedral, Soddo, Vicariate Apostolic of Soddo-Hosanna

Please contact the Bishop through the Vicariate Apostolic of Soddo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M.
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ramiro Moliner Inglés †
Titular Archbishop of Sarda
Bishop Domenico Crescentino Marinozzi, O.F.M. Cap. †
Titular Bishop of Iucundiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (1998)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Paulos Cardinal Tzadua † (1973)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Archbishop Asrate Mariam Yemmeru † (1958)
Archbishop of Addis Abeba (Ethiopian)
Bishop Hailé Mariam Cahsai † (1951)
Titular Bishop of Sozusa in Libya
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 Woldeghiorghis Matheos (2010)
Bishop Tsegaye Keneni Derara (2013)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 13519838
WikiData: Q2161295

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 5 Jan 2007
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 188, Number 15,343
r: CB, 12 Jan 2014

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