Alberto Cardinal Suárez Inda

Archbishop Emeritus of Morelia, Michoacán, México

Cardinal-Priest of San Policarpo

Motto: Non Enim Vivimus Domino

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jan 1939		Born
8 Aug 1964	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Morelia, Michoacán, México
13 Oct 1973	34.7	Incardinated	Priest of Celaya, Guanajuato, México
5 Nov 1985	46.7	Appointed	Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México
20 Dec 1985	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México
20 Jan 1995	55.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
23 Feb 1995	56.0	Installed	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México
14 Feb 2015	76.0	Elevated to Cardinal
14 Feb 2015	76.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Policarpo
11 Oct 2015	76.6	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Policarpo
5 Nov 2016	77.7	Retired	Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán, México

MicroData Summary
Alberto Suárez Inda
Alberto Cardinal Suárez Inda
(born 30 Jan 1939)
Archbishop Emeritus of Morelia

Ad Limina - September 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop
Consistory - 2015: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Celaya, Archdiocese of Morelia, Michoacán
Ordained Priest Celaya, Archdiocese of Morelia, Michoacán
Ordained Bishop Tacámbaro, Diocese of Tacámbaro, Michoacán

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Morelia.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Luis María Altamirano y Bulnes †
Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Estanislao Alcaraz y Figueroa †
Archbishop of Morelia, Michoacán
Bishop Luis Morales Reyes †
Coadjutor Bishop of Torreón, Coahuila

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Joel Ocampo Gorostieta (1989)
Bishop Herculano Medina Garfias (1996)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Leopoldo González González (1999)
Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón (2002)
Bishop Salvador Rangel Mendoza, O.F.M. (2009)
Bishop Juan Espinoza Jiménez (2011)
Bishop Víctor Alejandro Aguilar Ledesma (2016)
Bishop Herculano Medina Garfias (2016)
Bishop Salvador Cleofás Murguía Villalobos, S.D.B. (2018)
Bishop Joel Ocampo Gorostieta (2019)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Gabriel Cuara Méndez † (1989)
Bishop Salvador Flores Huerta † (1993)
Bishop Octavio Villegas Aguilar (1994)
Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López (1996)
Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos (1996)
Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez (1997)
Bishop José Luis Castro Medellín, M. S. F. † (2002)
Bishop Enrique Díaz Díaz (2003)
Archbishop Fabio Martínez Castilla † (2007)
Archbishop José Armando Álvarez Cano (2012)
Bishop Armando António Ortíz Aguirre (2014)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 292926845
WikiData: Q1743579

Source(s):

c: Bollettino, 4 Jan 2015
ab: Bollettino, 14 Feb 2015
i: Bollettino, 2 Oct 2015
r: Bollettino, 5 Nov 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 96, Number 8,232

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