Puerto Rico

Seniority by Priestly Ordination

Ordained Priest	Years	Name	Current Title
2 May 1954		Archbishop Blasco Francisco Collaço	Apostolic Nuncio
9 Apr 1961		Bishop Félix Lázaro Martinez, Sch. P.	Bishop Emeritus of Ponce
8 Jun 1968		Bishop Enrique Manuel Hernández Rivera	Bishop Emeritus of Caguas
6 Jul 1974		Bishop Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J.	Bishop Emeritus of Mayagüez
9 Feb 1975		Bishop Ruben Antonio González Medina, C.M.F.	Bishop of Ponce
13 Jun 1975		Archbishop Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader	Apostolic Nuncio
8 May 1977		Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M.	Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico
19 May 1977		Archbishop Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio	Archbishop of United States of America, Military
3 Jun 1983		Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales	Bishop of Caguas
2 Jul 1983		Archbishop Jude Thaddeus Okolo	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
14 Sep 1984		Bishop Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera, O. Carm.	Bishop of Fajardo-Humacao
11 Jan 1985		Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos	Bishop of Mayagüez
11 Jun 1988		Archbishop Piergiorgio Bertoldi	Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic
2 Jun 1990		Bishop Alberto Arturo Figueroa Morales	Bishop of Arecibo
7 Jan 1995		Bishop Daniel Fernández Torres	Bishop Emeritus of Arecibo
21 Apr 2001		Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt Torres, S.E.M.V.	Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
6 Aug 2001		Bishop Tomás Godrés González González	Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico

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