Bishop Diego Castejón Fonseca †

Deceased

Bishop of Tarazona, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1580¹		Born
9 Jan 1634	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
2 Jul 1634	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
1 May 1636	56.3	Resigned	Bishop of Lugo, Spain
28 Mar 1643	63.2	Selected	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
23 May 1644	64.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain
19 Feb 1655	75.1	Died	Bishop of Tarazona, Spain

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Diego Castejón Fonseca
(VIAF: 52036664; WikiData: Q5806722)
Bishop Diego Castejón Fonseca (born 1580, died 19 Feb 1655) Bishop of Tarazona

Event Place
Birth Place Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo
Ordained Bishop Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo

a bishop for 20.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Melchor Soria Vera y Diaz †
Titular Bishop of Troas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Miguel Avellán, O.F.M. Obs. †
Titular Bishop of Siriensis
Bishop Timoteo Pérez Vargas, O.C.D. †
Bishop of Ispahan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Melchor Soria Vera y Diaz † (1602)
Titular Bishop of Troas
Bernardo Cardinal de Rojas y Sandoval † (1586)
Archbishop of Toledo
Rodrigo Cardinal de Castro Osorio (de Lemos) † (1574)
Archbishop of Sevilla {Seville}
Bishop Gaspar de Quiroga y Vela † (1572)
Bishop of Cuenca
Diego Cardinal Espinosa Arévalo †
Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Juan Alonso y Ocón † (1638)
Bishop Francisco Diego Alarcón y Covarrubias † (1639)
Cesare Cardinal Facchinetti † (1639)
Bishop Juan Coello Ribera y Sandoval † (1639)
Bishop Hernando de Ramírez y Sánchez, O.SS.T. † (1642)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo
Ordained Bishop	Madrid, Archdiocese of Toledo

Source(s):

bp/bd/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 119
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 224, and Page 338
b/c2+: Episcopologio Español, Volume 1,500, Page 160, Number 1,012
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1634, Number 10
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 65, Number 5,048
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 100, Number 8,614

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