Bishop Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Rios

Bishop of Caacupé, Paraguay

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Dec 1954		Born
12 Dec 1982	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Asunción, Paraguay
27 Nov 1993	38.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Asunción, Paraguay
27 Nov 1993	38.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Casae Calanae
6 Jan 1994	39.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Casae Calanae
24 May 2003	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Paraguay, Military
25 Jun 2010	55.5	Appointed	Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay
22 Aug 2010	55.6	Installed	Bishop of Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay
25 Sep 2014	59.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
21 Dec 2014	60.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay
29 Jun 2017	62.5	Appointed	Bishop of Caacupé, Paraguay

MicroData Summary
Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Rios
Bishop Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela Rios
(born 13 Dec 1954)
Bishop of Caacupé

Ad Limina - September 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Asunción, Archdiocese of Asunción

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Caacupé.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †
Titular Archbishop of Tharros

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinz Wilhelm Steckling, O.M.I. (2014)
Bishop Amancio Francisco Benítez Candia (2018)
Bishop Marcelo Benítez Martínez, O.F.M. (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Asunción, Archdiocese of Asunción

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1725239

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 25 Jun 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,195
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
ab: Bollettino, 25 Sep 2014
r: Bollettino, 15 Nov 2014
ab: Bollettino, 29 Jun 2017

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