Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M.

Bishop Emeritus of Santa Ana, El Salvador

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1940		Born
25 Jun 1968	28.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
5 May 1987	47.1	Appointed	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
25 Jul 1987	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Zacatecoluca, El Salvador
17 Dec 1996	56.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of San Miguel, El Salvador
10 Apr 1997	57.0	Succeeded	Bishop of San Miguel, El Salvador
12 May 1999	59.1	Appointed	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador
9 Feb 2016	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Santa Ana, El Salvador

MicroData Summary for Romeo Tovar Astorga
(VIAF: 248838330; WikiData: Q2165109)
Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga O.F.M. (born 5 Mar 1940) Bishop Emeritus of Santa Ana

Ad Limina - February 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ciudad Delgado
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Zacatecoluca, Diocese of Zacatecoluca

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Santa Ana.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francesco De Nittis †
Titular Archbishop of Tunes
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of San Salvador
Bishop José Oscar Barahona Castillo †
Bishop of San Vicente

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francesco De Nittis † (1981)
Titular Archbishop of Tunes
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Morao Andreazza, O.F.M. (2004)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Elías Samuel Bolaños Avelar, S.D.B. (1998)
Bishop José Elías Rauda Gutiérrez, O.F.M. (2008)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,260
r: Bollettino, 9 Feb 2016

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