Archbishop Rafael Bello Ruiz †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Acapulco, Guerrero, México

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Mar 1926		Born
29 Jun 1950	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
12 Feb 1974	47.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
12 Feb 1974	47.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Segia
25 Mar 1974	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Segia
1 Jun 1976	50.2	Appointed	Bishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
29 Jun 1976	50.3	Installed	Bishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
10 Feb 1983	56.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
8 May 2001	75.1	Retired	Archbishop of Acapulco, Guerrero, México
6 Jul 2008	82.3	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Acapulco, Guerrero, México

MicroData Summary
Rafael Bello Ruiz
Archbishop Rafael Bello Ruiz
(born 7 Mar 1926, died 6 Jul 2008)
Archbishop Emeritus of Acapulco

Event Place
Birth Place Tecpan de Galeana
Ordained Bishop Christ the King, Acapulco, Diocese of Acapulco, Guerrero

a priest for 58.0 years
a bishop for 34.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Maurice Feltin †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari †
Titular Archbishop of Numida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Fidel Cortés Pérez †
Bishop of Chilapa, Guerrero
Bishop José del Pilar Quezada Valdéz †
Bishop of Acapulco, Guerrero

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari † (1973)
Titular Archbishop of Numida
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José María Hernández González † (1983)
Bishop Alejo Zavala Castro † (1992)
Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos (1996)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 305881257
WikiData: Q1632847

Source(s):

c1/d: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,360

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