Rubén Cardinal Salazar Gómez

Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia

Cardinal-Priest of San Gerardo Maiella

Motto: Tunc Dixi Ecce Venio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Sep 1942		Born
20 May 1967	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ibagué, Colombia
11 Feb 1992	49.3	Appointed	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
25 Mar 1992	49.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cúcuta, Colombia
18 Mar 1999	56.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Barranquilla, Colombia
8 Jul 2010	67.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
13 Aug 2010	67.8	Installed	Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
24 Nov 2012	70.1	Elevated to Cardinal
24 Nov 2012	70.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gerardo Maiella
28 Apr 2013	70.5	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Gerardo Maiella
25 Apr 2020	77.5	Retired	Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Rubén Salazar Gómez
Rubén Cardinal Salazar Gómez
(born 22 Sep 1942)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop
Consistory - November 2012: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá
Ordained Bishop Ibagué, Archdiocese of Ibagué

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Bogotá.

a priest for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop José Joaquín Flórez Hernández †
Bishop of Ibagué
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop José Joaquín Flórez Hernández †
Archbishop of Ibagué
Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Sàenz †
Archbishop of Cali

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Edgar Jesús Mejía Orozco (2007)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Victor Antonio Tamayo Betancourt (2004)
Bishop Pedro Manuel Salamanca Mantilla (2015)
Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera (2015)
Bishop Luis Augusto Campos Flórez (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Antonio Nova Rocha † (2002)
Archbishop Omar Alberto Sánchez Cubillos, O.P. (2011)
Archbishop Orlando Roa Barbosa (2012)
Bishop Joaquín Humberto Pinzón Güiza, I.M.C. (2013)
Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (2016)
Bishop Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias (2016)
Bishop Hency Martínez Vargas (2019)
Bishop Germán Medina Acosta (2021)
Archbishop Mauricio Rueda Beltz (2023)
Archbishop George George Panamthundil (2023)
Bishop Alejandro Díaz García (2024)
Bishop Dimas Antonio Acuña Jiménez (2024)
Bishop Edgar Jesús Mejía Orozco (2024)
Bishop Edwin Raúl Vanegas Cuervo (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bogotá, Archdiocese of Bogotá
Ordained Bishop	Ibagué, Archdiocese of Ibagué

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q26639

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 8 Jul 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 132, Number 11,916
card: Bollettino, 24 Oct 2012
ab: Bollettino, 24 Nov 2012
i: Bollettino, 22 Apr 2013
r: Bollettino, 25 Apr 2020

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