Bishop Juan Antonio Menéndez Fernández †

Deceased

Bishop of Astorga, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jan 1957		Born
10 May 1981	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oviedo, Spain
26 Apr 2013	56.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Oviedo, Spain
26 Apr 2013	56.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nasai
8 Jun 2013	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nasai
18 Nov 2015	58.8	Appointed	Bishop of Astorga, Spain
15 May 2019	62.3	Died	Bishop of Astorga, Spain

MicroData Summary for Juan Antonio Menéndez Fernández
(WikiData: Q12013804)
Bishop Juan Antonio Menéndez Fernández (born 6 Jan 1957, died 15 May 2019) Bishop of Astorga

Ad Limina - March 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Villamarín de Salcedo
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Oviedo, Archdiocese of Oviedo
Death Place Astorga, Diocese of Astorga

a priest for 38.0 years
a bishop for 5.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Oviedo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Renzo Fratini
Titular Archbishop of Botriana
Archbishop Gabino Díaz Merchán †
Archbishop Emeritus of Oviedo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. (2003)
Archbishop of Oviedo
Antonio María Cardinal Rouco Varela (1976)
Archbishop of Madrid
Archbishop Ángel Suquía Goicoechea † (1966)
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Archbishop Antonio Riberi † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Dara
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Apr 2013
ob/c2+: CB, 26 Apr 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 214, Number 17,800
ab: Bollettino, 18 Nov 2015
d: CB, 15 May 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)

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