Antonio María Cardinal Rouco Varela

Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid, Spain

Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Aug 1936		Born
28 Mar 1959	22.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mondoñedo-Ferrol, Spain
17 Sep 1976	40.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
17 Sep 1976	40.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gergis
31 Oct 1976	40.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gergis
9 May 1984	47.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
28 Jul 1994	57.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
21 Feb 1998	61.5	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 1998	61.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso
11 Oct 1998	62.1	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Damaso
28 Aug 2014	78.0	Retired	Archbishop of Madrid, Spain

MicroData Summary
Antonio María Rouco Varela
Antonio María Cardinal Rouco Varela
(born 20 Aug 1936)
Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid

Consistory - 1998: Created Cardinal
Ad Limina - January 2005: Bishop
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Villalba, Diocese of Mondoñedo
Ordained Bishop Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral, Compostela, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Madrid.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ángel Suquía Goicoechea †
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Maximino Romero de Lema †
Titular Archbishop of Aemona
Bishop Oskar Saier †
Titular Bishop of Rubicon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Ricardo Cardinal Blázquez Pérez (1988)
Archbishop Julián Barrio Barrio (1993)
Archbishop Fidel Herráez Vegas (1996)
Bishop César Augusto Franco Martínez (1996)
Bishop Eugenio Romero Pose † (1997)
Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes, O.F.M. (2003)
Bishop Gregorio Martínez Sacristán † (2007)
Bishop Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, S.J. (2008)
Bishop Alfonso Carrasco Rouco (2008)
Archbishop Carlos Manuel Escribano Subías (2010)
Bishop José Luis Del Palacio y Pérez-Medel (2012)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jesús García Burillo (1998)
Bishop Luis Quinteiro Fiuza (1999)
Bishop Casimiro López Llorente (2001)
Bishop Joaquin Maria López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo (2001)
Bishop José Manuel Lorca Planes (2004)
Archbishop Vicente Jiménez Zamora (2004)
Bishop Demetrio Fernández González (2005)
Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge (2005)
Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy (2006)
Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía (2008)
Bishop Paolo De Nicolò (2008)
Bishop José Rico Pavés (2012)
Bishop Jesús Vidal Chamorro (2018)
José Cardinal Cobo Cano (2018)
Bishop Santos Montoya Torres (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Villalba, Diocese of Mondoñedo
Ordained Bishop	Santiago de Compostela, Cathedral, Compostela, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela

External Link(s):

VIAF: 41764505
WikiData: Q44898

Source(s):

i: Bollettino, 29 Sep 1998
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 186, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 28 Aug 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 38, Number 2,385

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