Bishop Ruben Antonio González Medina, C.M.F.

Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Feb 1949		Born
1972²	22.8	Perpetual Vows	Member of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
9 Feb 1975	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
12 Dec 2000	51.8	Appointed	Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico
4 Feb 2001	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Caguas, Puerto Rico
22 Dec 2015	66.8	Appointed	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico
31 Jan 2016	66.9	Installed	Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Ruben Antonio González Medina
(WikiData: Q2171511)
Bishop Ruben Antonio González Medina C.M.F. (born 9 Feb 1949) Bishop of Ponce

Ad Limina - June 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Santurce

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ponce.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Madre della Providenza a Monte Verde
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop François Robert Bacqué †
Titular Archbishop of Gradisca
Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M.
Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez † (1960)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Madre della Providenza a Monte Verde
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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:
Bishop Eusebio Ramos Morales (2008)
Bishop Alberto Arturo Figueroa Morales (2019)
Bishop Ángel Luis Ríos Matos (2020)
Bishop Luis Francisco Miranda Rivera, O. Carm. (2020)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,899
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 210, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ab: Bollettino, 22 Dec 2015
i: CB, 2 Feb 2016

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