Bishop Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia

Motto: Testigo De Amor

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Oct 1936		Born
15 Aug 1964	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cartago, Colombia
27 Jun 1984	47.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pereira, Colombia
27 Jun 1984	47.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Alexanum
6 Aug 1984	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Alexanum
7 Jul 1987	50.7	Appointed	Bishop of Málaga-Soatá, Colombia
19 Jan 2001	64.2	Appointed	Bishop of Buga, Colombia
10 May 2012	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Buga, Colombia
30 Jul 2012	75.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Magangué, Colombia
24 Jan 2015	78.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Magangué, Colombia
3 Jan 2026	89.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Buga, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo
Bishop Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo
(born 21 Oct 1936, died 3 Jan 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Buga

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Manizales, Diocese of Manizales
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora de El Carmen, Cathedral, Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Death Place Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Buried Place (Original) Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Cathedral, Buga, Diocese of Buga

Event	Place
Birth Place	Manizales, Diocese of Manizales
Ordained Bishop	Nuestra Señora de El Carmen, Cathedral, Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Death Place	Cartago, Diocese of Cartago
Buried Place (Original)	Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Cathedral, Buga, Diocese of Buga

Relatives

Brother of: Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S. †, Archbishop Emeritus of Medellín

a priest for 61.3 years
a bishop for 41.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
- Bishop José Gabriel Calderón Contreras †
  Bishop of Cartago
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Bishop Darío Castrillón Hoyos †
  Bishop of Pereira
- Bishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S. †
  Bishop of Cúcuta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop José Gabriel Calderón Contreras † (1959)
Bishop of Cartago
Paolo Cardinal Giobbe † (1925)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella
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

Ordained Priest:
- Bishop Félix María Ramírez Barajas (1988)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
- Bishop Edgar de Jesús Garcia Gil (1992)
- Bishop Félix María Ramírez Barajas (2022)
- Bishop Rodrigo Gallego Trujillo (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1613717

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 10 May 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 88, Number 7,410
bpd/opd/aadm: CB, 7 Sep 2024
d: CB, 4 Jan 2026

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