Bishop Rafael Torija de la Fuente †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Real, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Mar 1927		Born
7 Jun 1952	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
4 Nov 1969	42.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santander, Spain
4 Nov 1969	42.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ursona
14 Dec 1969	42.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ursona
30 Sep 1976	49.5	Appointed	Prelate of Ciudad Real, Spain
30 Sep 1976	49.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Dora
4 Feb 1980	52.8	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Real, Spain
20 Mar 2003	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Ciudad Real, Spain
2 Mar 2019	91.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Real, Spain

MicroData Summary
Rafael Torija de la Fuente
Bishop Rafael Torija de la Fuente
(born 18 Mar 1927, died 2 Mar 2019)
Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Real

Event Place
Birth Place Noez
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Toledo, Archdiocese of Toledo
Death Place Ciudad Real, Diocese of Ciudad Real

a priest for 66.7 years
a bishop for 49.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón †
Archbishop of Toledo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gabino Díaz Merchán †
Archbishop of Oviedo
Bishop José María Cirarda Lachiondo †
Bishop of Santander

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón † (1946)
Archbishop of Toledo
Bishop Manuel Moll y Salord † (1937)
Bishop of Tortosa
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria
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 Rafael Palmero Ramos † (1988)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1615643

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140
d: CB, 2 Mar 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 518
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)

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