Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay

Motto: Crean En La Buena Nueva

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Apr 1942		Born
21 Dec 1968	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Montevideo, Uruguay
9 Nov 1985	43.5	Appointed	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay
21 Dec 1985	43.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay
Jun 2001³	59.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Minas, Uruguay
8 May 2004	62.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Minas, Uruguay
1 Jul 2009	67.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Minas, Uruguay
16 Oct 2010	68.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Minas, Uruguay
15 Jun 2018	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay
9 Dec 2025	83.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer
Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer
(born 19 Apr 1942, died 9 Dec 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Maldonado-Punta del Este

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

Event Place
Birth Place Schwarz-Rheindorf, Archdiocese of Köln {Cologne}, Germany
Ordained Bishop Open Air, In Front of, Cathedral, Maldonado, Diocese of Maldonado-Punta del Este
Death Place Montevideo, Archdiocese of Montevideo

a priest for 56.9 years
a bishop for 39.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Montevideo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Carlos Parteli Keller †
Archbishop Emeritus of Montevideo
Bishop Victor Gil Lechoza †
Bishop of Minas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop José Gottardi Cristelli, S.D.B. † (1972)
Archbishop of Montevideo
Archbishop Augustin-Joseph Antoine Sépinski, O.F.M. † (1965)
Titular Archbishop of Assuras
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Jaime Rafael Fuentes Martín (2010)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Martín Pablo Pérez Scremini (2004)
Bishop Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira † (2004)
Bishop Luis Eduardo González Cedrés (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q90000

Source(s):

ab: CB
r: Bollettino, 15 Jun 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 97, Number 8,336
d: CB, 9 Dec 2025

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