Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge

Bishop Emeritus of Santander, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Apr 1947		Born
9 Aug 1970	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Palencia, Spain
6 Jun 2005	58.1	Appointed	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
23 Jul 2005	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
6 May 2015	68.0	Appointed	Bishop of Santander, Spain
30 May 2015	68.1	Installed	Bishop of Santander, Spain
31 Oct 2023	76.5	Retired	Bishop of Santander, Spain

MicroData Summary
Manuel Sánchez Monge
Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge
(born 18 Apr 1947)
Bishop Emeritus of Santander

Ad Limina - March 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Fuentes de Nava, Diocese of Palencia
Ordained Bishop Plaza, Cathedral, Mondoñedo, Diocese of Mondoñedo-Ferrol

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Santander.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro
Titular Archbishop of Beneventum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Antonio María Cardinal Rouco Varela
Archbishop of Madrid
Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro (1985)
Titular Archbishop of Beneventum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 86816096
WikiData: Q1454351

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 181, Number 14,949
ab: Bollettino, 6 May 2015
i: CB, 6 May 2015
r: Bollettino, 31 Oct 2023

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