Archbishop Fidel Herráez Vegas

Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos, Spain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jul 1944		Born
19 May 1968	23.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madrid, Spain
14 May 1996	51.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid, Spain
14 May 1996	51.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cediae
29 Jun 1996	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cediae
30 Oct 2015	71.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
28 Nov 2015	71.3	Installed	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain
6 Oct 2020	76.1	Retired	Archbishop of Burgos, Spain

MicroData Summary
Fidel Herráez Vegas
Archbishop Fidel Herráez Vegas
(born 28 Jul 1944)
Archbishop Emeritus of Burgos

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

Event Place
Birth Place Ávila, Diocese of Ávila
Ordained Bishop Santa María la Real de la Almudena, Cathedral, Madrid, Archdiocese of Madrid

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Burgos.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio María Rouco Varela
Archbishop of Madrid
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea †
Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid
Archbishop Lajos Kada †
Titular Archbishop of Thibica

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antonio María Rouco Varela (1976)
Archbishop of Madrid
Archbishop Ángel Suquía Goicoechea † (1966)
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
Archbishop Antonio Riberi † (1934)
Titular Archbishop of Dara
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Abilio Martínez Varea (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, S.J. (2008)
Bishop Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal (2016)
Bishop Manuel Herrero Fernández, O.S.A. (2016)
Bishop Fernando García Cadiñanos (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 52947607
WikiData: Q1411208

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 146, Number 12,765
ab: Bollettino, 30 Oct 2015
i: CB, 30 Oct 2015
r: Bollettino, 6 Oct 2020
opd: CB, 29 Jul 2024

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