Archbishop Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Apr 1935		Born
6 Jan 1960	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
16 May 1972	37.0	Appointed	Bishop of San Carlos de Venezuela
25 Jul 1972	37.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Carlos de Venezuela
15 Aug 1972	37.3	Installed	Bishop of San Carlos de Venezuela
20 Aug 1979	44.3	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela
26 May 1986	51.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
27 Aug 2011	76.3	Retired	Archbishop of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
27 Nov 2018	83.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero
Archbishop Medardo Luis Luzardo Romero
(born 17 Apr 1935, died 27 Nov 2018)
Archbishop Emeritus of Ciudad Bolívar

Event Place
Birth Place Los Puertos de Altagracia
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá, Basilica, Maracaibo, Archdiocese of Maracaibo
Death Place Los Puertos de Altagracia

a priest for 58.8 years
a bishop for 46.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
José Humberto Cardinal Quintero Parra †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Domingo Roa Pérez †
Archbishop of Maracaibo
Bishop Mariano José Parra León †
Bishop of Cumaná

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

José Humberto Cardinal Quintero Parra † (1953)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Enrique Pérez Lavado (2003)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Antonio Arellano Durán † (1980)
Archbishop Antonio José López Castillo † (1988)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Los Puertos de Altagracia
Ordained Bishop	Nuestra Señora de Chiquinquirá, Basilica, Maracaibo, Archdiocese of Maracaibo
Death Place	Los Puertos de Altagracia

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1916014

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 27 Aug 2011
d: CB, 28 Nov 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 19, Number 1,020
i: CB, 21 Aug 2025

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