Santos Cardinal Abril y Castelló

Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}

Cardinal-Priest of San Ponziano

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Sep 1935		Born
19 Mar 1960	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Teruel (-Albarracín), Spain
29 Apr 1985	49.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Tamada
29 Apr 1985	49.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia
16 Jun 1985	49.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Tamada
2 Oct 1989	54.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Cameroun
2 Oct 1989	54.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Gabon
2 Oct 1989	54.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Equatorial Guinea
24 Feb 1996	60.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia
4 Mar 2000	64.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina
9 Apr 2003	67.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
9 Apr 2003	67.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina
12 Apr 2003	67.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to North Macedonia
21 Nov 2005	70.1	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Bosnia and Herzegovina
9 Jan 2011	75.3	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia
9 Jan 2011	75.3	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to North Macedonia
22 Jan 2011	75.3	Appointed	Vice-Chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber
21 Nov 2011	76.1	Appointed	Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
18 Feb 2012	76.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Ponziano
18 Feb 2012	76.4	Elevated to Cardinal
20 May 2012	76.6	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Ponziano
28 Dec 2016	81.2	Retired	Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}
4 Mar 2022	86.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Ponziano

MicroData Summary for Santos Abril y Castelló
(VIAF: 305115017; WikiData: Q562868)
Santos Cardinal Abril y Castelló (born 21 Sep 1935) Archpriest Emeritus of Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}

Consistory - February 2012: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Alfambra, Diocese of Teruel (-Albarracín), Spain
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Teruel, Diocese of Teruel (-Albarracín), Spain

Please contact the Cardinal through the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}.

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

Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gabino Díaz Merchán †
Archbishop of Oviedo
Bishop Ramón Búa Otero †
Bishop of Tarazona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Toribio Sergio Cardinal Porco Ticona (1986)
Bishop Mario Lezana Vaca † (1986)
Bishop Adalberto Arturo Rosat, O.F.M. † (1987)
Bishop Julio María Elías Montoya, O.F.M. (1987)
Bishop Carlos Stetter (1988)
Bishop Nino Marzoli, C. R. † (1988)
Archbishop Jesús Juárez Párraga, S.D.B. (1988)
Bishop Raphaël Marie Ze † (1992)
Bishop Emmanuel Bushu (1993)
Archbishop Roger Pirenne, C.I.C.M. † (1994)
Bishop Dieudonné Watio (1995)
Bishop Carlos Humberto Malfa (2000)
Bishop Jorge Luis Lona † (2000)
Bishop Juan Horacio Suárez (2000)
Bishop Stanislav Lipovšek (2010)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez, O.F.M. † (1985)
Archbishop Tito Solari Capellari, S.D.B. (1987)
Bishop Jean-Bosco Ntep (1993)
Archbishop Zef Gashi, S.D.B. (1998)
Archbishop Andrés Stanovnik, O.F.M. Cap. (2001)

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 22 Jan 2011
ab: Bollettino, 21 Nov 2011
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
card: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2012
1d03: Bollettino, 18 Feb 2012
i: Bollettino, 11 May 2012
r: Bollettino, 28 Dec 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 91, Number 7,738
cpri: Bollettino, 4 Mar 2022

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