Bishop Cristián Contreras Villarroel

Bishop of (San José de) Melipilla, Chile

Motto: Ven Señor Jesús

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Apr 1959		Born
5 Dec 1984	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santiago de Chile
25 Apr 2003	44.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile
25 Apr 2003	44.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Illiberi
21 Jun 2003	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Illiberi
7 Mar 2014	54.8	Appointed	Bishop of (San José de) Melipilla, Chile
31 May 2014	55.1	Installed	Bishop of (San José de) Melipilla, Chile

MicroData Summary
Cristián Contreras Villarroel
Bishop Cristián Contreras Villarroel
(born 24 Apr 1959)
Bishop of (San José de) Melipilla

Ad Limina - November 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Santiago, Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
Ordained Priest Santa Rosa de Lo Barnechea, Church, Santiago, Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Santiago, Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of (San José de) Melipilla.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín †
Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Principal Consecrator:
Francisco Javier Cardinal Errázuriz Ossa, P. Schönstatt
Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Carlos González Cruchaga †
Bishop Emeritus of Talca
Bishop Sergio Valech Aldunate †
Titular Bishop of Zabi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francisco Javier Cardinal Errázuriz Ossa, P. Schönstatt (1991)
Archbishop of Santiago de Chile
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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:
Fernando Natalio Cardinal Chomalí Garib (2006)
Bishop Pedro Mario Ossandón Buljevic (2008)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 61163510275210931491
WikiData: Q1140427

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,413
ab: Bollettino, 7 Mar 2014

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