Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz

Bishop Emeritus of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Sep 1943		Born
11 Nov 1967	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tunja, Colombia
20 Mar 2003	59.5	Appointed	Bishop of Arauca, Colombia
26 Apr 2003	59.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Arauca, Colombia
3 May 2003	59.6	Installed	Bishop of Arauca, Colombia
2 Feb 2010	66.4	Appointed	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
17 Apr 2010	66.6	Installed	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia
12 Dec 2019	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Socorro y San Gil, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz
Bishop Carlos Germán Mesa Ruiz
(born 4 Sep 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Socorro y San Gil

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Duitama
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Tunja, Archdiocese of Tunja

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Socorro y San Gil.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Beniamino Stella
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, I.M.C. †
Archbishop of Tunja
Bishop Alvaro Raúl Jarro Tobos †
Titular Bishop of Thasbalta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Beniamino Stella (1987)
Titular Archbishop of Midila
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:
Luis José Cardinal Rueda Aparicio (2012)
Bishop Luis Augusto Campos Flórez (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1042943

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 2 Feb 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 171, Number 14,367
r: Bollettino, 12 Dec 2019

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