Bishop Arthur Nicholas Tafoya †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Pueblo, Colorado, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Mar 1933		Born
12 May 1962	29.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1 Jul 1980	47.3	Appointed	Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
10 Sep 1980	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
15 Oct 2009	76.6	Retired	Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
24 Mar 2018	85.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Pueblo, Colorado, USA

MicroData Summary for Arthur Nicholas Tafoya
(WikiData: Q710795)
Bishop Arthur Nicholas Tafoya (born 2 Mar 1933, died 24 Mar 2018) Bishop Emeritus of Pueblo

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Alameda, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ordained Priest St. Francis, Cathedral, Santa Fe, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ordained Bishop Massari Arena, Pueblo, Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado
Death Place Albuquerque, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Buried Place (Original) Roselawn, Cemetery, Pueblo, Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado

a priest for 55.8 years
a bishop for 37.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne †
Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Vincent Casey †
Archbishop of Denver, Colorado
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Robert Fortune Sanchez †
Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bishop Charles Albert Buswell †
Bishop Emeritus of Pueblo, Colorado

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Vincent Casey † (1957)
Archbishop of Denver, Colorado
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
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 David Laurin Ricken (1980)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Fernando Isern (2009)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Alameda, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ordained Priest	St. Francis, Cathedral, Santa Fe, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ordained Bishop	Massari Arena, Pueblo, Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado
Death Place	Albuquerque, Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Buried Place (Original)	Roselawn, Cemetery, Pueblo, Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2009
d: CB, 24 Mar 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 62, Number 4,814

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