Archbishop Francisco Gil Hellín †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jul 1940		Born
21 Jun 1964	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cartagena (en España)
3 Apr 1996	55.7	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family
3 Apr 1996	55.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Citium
1 Jun 1996	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Citium
28 Mar 2002	61.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
30 Oct 2015	75.3	Retired	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
15 Jun 2018	77.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
16 Jan 2019	78.5	Resigned	Apostolic Administrator of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain
27 Nov 2025	85.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

MicroData Summary
Francisco Gil Hellín
Archbishop Francisco Gil Hellín
(born 2 Jul 1940, died 27 Nov 2025)
Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos

Ad Limina - January 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place La Ñora, Murcia, Diocese of Cartagena (en España)
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Murcia, Diocese of Cartagena (en España)

a priest for 61.4 years
a bishop for 29.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo †
President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Agustín García-Gasco y Vicente †
Archbishop of Valencia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Alfonso Cardinal López Trujillo † (1971)
President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
Archbishop Aníbal Muñoz Duque † (1951)
Titular Archbishop of Cariana
Archbishop Antonio Samorè † (1950)
Titular Archbishop of Ternobus
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Archbishop Vicente Jiménez Zamora (2004)
Bishop Cecilio Raúl Berzosa Martínez (2005)
Bishop Gerardo Melgar Viciosa (2008)

Event	Place
Birth Place	La Ñora, Murcia, Diocese of Cartagena (en España)
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Murcia, Diocese of Cartagena (en España)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/33029
VIAF: 39539120
WikiData: Q1441974

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,756
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 30 Oct 2015
ab: CB, 15 Jun 2018
r: CB, 16 Jan 2019
bp/opd: CB, 31 Jul 2024
d: CB, 27 Nov 2025

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