Bishop Luis Alberto Fernández Alara

Bishop Emeritus of Rafaela, Argentina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Oct 1946		Born
29 Jun 1975	28.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lomas de Zamora, Argentina
24 Jan 2009	62.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina
24 Jan 2009	62.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Carpi
27 Mar 2009	62.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Carpi
10 Sep 2013	66.8	Appointed	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
22 Nov 2013	67.0	Installed	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina
11 Nov 2022	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Rafaela, Argentina

MicroData Summary for Luis Alberto Fernández Alara
(VIAF: 86737167; WikiData: Q1876305)
Bishop Luis Alberto Fernández Alara (born 26 Oct 1946) Bishop Emeritus of Rafaela

Ad Limina - May 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lomas di Zamora, Archdiocese of La Plata
Ordained Bishop Colegio Santa Inés, Turdera

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Rafaela.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J.
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agustín Roberto Radrizzani, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján
Bishop Jorge Rubén Lugones, S.J.
Bishop of Lomas de Zamora
Archbishop José María Arancedo
Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, S.J. (1992)
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Antonio Cardinal Quarracino † (1962)
Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Bishop Anunciado Serafini † (1935)
Bishop of Mercedes
Archbishop Zenobio Lorenzo Guilland † (1935)
Archbishop of Paraná
Archbishop Filippo Cortesi † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Siraces
Antonio Cardinal Vico † (1898)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Miguel Ángel D’Annibale † (2011)
Bishop Jorge Vázquez (2013)
Bishop Gustavo Alejandro Montini (2014)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lomas di Zamora, Archdiocese of La Plata
Ordained Bishop	Colegio Santa Inés, Turdera

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 Jan 2009
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 197, Number 16,081
ab: Bollettino, 10 Sep 2013
i: CB, 25 Nov 2013
r: Bollettino, 11 Nov 2022

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