Nicolás de Jesús Cardinal López Rodríguez

Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Cardinal-Priest of San Pio X alla Balduina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Oct 1936		Born
18 Mar 1961	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Vega, Dominican Republic
16 Jan 1978	41.2	Appointed	Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
25 Feb 1978	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic
15 Nov 1981	45.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
4 Apr 1982	45.4	Appointed	Bishop of Dominican Republic, Military
28 Jun 1991	54.6	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Jun 1991	54.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Pio X alla Balduina
4 Jul 2016	79.6	Retired	Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2 Jan 2017	80.1	Retired	Bishop of Dominican Republic, Military

MicroData Summary
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
Nicolás de Jesús Cardinal López Rodríguez
(born 31 Oct 1936)
Archbishop Emeritus of Santo Domingo

Consistory - 1991: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - July 2007: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - May 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Barrancas, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Priest La Vega, Diocese of La Vega
Ordained Bishop San Francisco de Macorís, Diocese of San Francisco de Macorís

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Francisco Panal Ramírez, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of La Vega
Principal Consecrator:
Octavio Antonio Cardinal Beras Rojas †
Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Juan Antonio Flores Santana †
Bishop of La Vega
Bishop Jesús María de Jesús Moya
Titular Bishop of Maxita

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Octavio Antonio Cardinal Beras Rojas † (1945)
Archbishop of Dominican Republic, Military
Archbishop Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt † (1942)
Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
Archbishop George Joseph (Jorge José) Caruana † (1921)
Titular Archbishop of Sebastea
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Victor Emilio Masalles Pere (1991)
Bishop Carlos Tomás Morel Diplán (2000)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gabriel Antonio Camilo González (1992)
Bishop Amancio Escapa Aparicio, O.C.D. † (1996)
Bishop Pablo Cedano Cedano † (1996)
Archbishop Francisco Ozoria Acosta (1997)
Archbishop Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez (1998)
Bishop Julio César Corniel Amaro (2005)
Bishop Victor Emilio Masalles Pere (2010)
Bishop Fausto Ramón Mejía Vallejo (2012)
Bishop Andrés Napoleón Romero Cárdenas (2015)
Archbishop Héctor Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez, M.S.C. (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Barrancas, Archdiocese of Santo Domingo
Ordained Priest	La Vega, Diocese of La Vega
Ordained Bishop	San Francisco de Macorís, Diocese of San Francisco de Macorís

External Link(s):

VIAF: 68133029
WikiData: Q280804

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 124
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Additions/Corrections (front)
r: Bollettino, 4 Jul 2016
r: Bollettino, 2 Jan 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 47, Number 3,246

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