Bishop Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales

Bishop of Valdivia, Chile

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jun 1955		Born
24 Oct 1980	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valparaíso, Chile
16 Feb 2002	46.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile
16 Feb 2002	46.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bela
6 Apr 2002	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bela
7 Jul 2015	60.0	Appointed	Bishop of Chile, Military
23 Dec 2020	65.5	Appointed	Bishop of Valdivia, Chile
19 Mar 2021	65.7	Installed	Bishop of Valdivia, Chile

MicroData Summary
Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales
Bishop Santiago Jaime Silva Retamales
(born 17 Jun 1955)
Bishop of Valdivia

Ad Limina - December 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place La Calera, Diocese of Valparaíso
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Valparaíso, Diocese of Valparaíso

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Valdivia.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Emilio Tagle Covarrubias †
Bishop of Valparaíso
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC.
Bishop of Valparaíso
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Francisco Javier Cardinal Errázuriz Ossa, P. Schönstatt
Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Bishop Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC. †
Bishop of Rancagua

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. (1995)
Bishop of Valparaíso
Archbishop Piero Biggio † (1989)
Titular Archbishop of Otriculum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
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: 149150323654309971417
WikiData: Q1768038

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 167, Number 14,162
ab: Bollettino, 7 Jul 2015
c1: CB, 13 May 2018
ab: Bollettino, 23 Dec 2020

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