Bishop César Ramón Ortega Herrera †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Jul 1938		Born
30 Jun 1963	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
25 Aug 1983	45.1	Appointed	Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela
28 Oct 1983	45.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Margarita, Venezuela
21 Jun 1997	58.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Barcelona, Venezuela
15 Jul 1998	59.9	Appointed	Bishop of Barcelona, Venezuela
20 Jan 2014	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Barcelona, Venezuela
8 Apr 2021	82.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Venezuela

MicroData Summary for César Ramón Ortega Herrera
(WikiData: Q120621)
Bishop César Ramón Ortega Herrera (born 16 Jul 1938, died 8 Apr 2021) Bishop Emeritus of Barcelona

Ad Limina - June 2009: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Salom
Death Place Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela

a priest for 57.7 years
a bishop for 37.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Crisanto Darío Mata Cova †
Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Tomás Enrique Márquez Gómez †
Bishop of San Felipe
Bishop Constantino Maradei Donato †
Bishop of Barcelona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Crisanto Darío Mata Cova † (1949)
Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar
Archbishop Lucas Guillermo Castillo Hernández † (1923)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 José Manuel Romero Barrios (2012)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Enrique Pérez Lavado (2003)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Salom
Death Place	Valencia, Archdiocese of Valencia en Venezuela

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 20 Jan 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 85, Number 7,102
d: CB, 9 Apr 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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