Baltazar Enrique Cardinal Porras Cardozo

Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Oct 1944		Born
30 Oct 1966	22.0	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Calabozo, Venezuela
30 Jul 1967	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Calabozo, Venezuela
23 Jul 1983	38.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mérida, Venezuela
23 Jul 1983	38.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lamdia
17 Sep 1983	38.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lamdia
30 Oct 1991	47.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Mérida, Venezuela
5 Dec 1991	47.1	Installed	Archbishop of Mérida, Venezuela
19 Nov 2016	72.1	Elevated to Cardinal
19 Nov 2016	72.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
11 Jun 2017	72.6	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
9 Jul 2018	73.7	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
17 Jan 2023	78.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
28 Jan 2023	78.2	Installed	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
31 Jan 2023	78.3	Retired	Archbishop of Mérida, Venezuela
28 Jun 2024	79.7	Retired	Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

MicroData Summary
Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo
Baltazar Enrique Cardinal Porras Cardozo
(born 10 Oct 1944)
Archbishop Emeritus of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela

Event Place
Birth Place Caracas, Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Ordained Deacon Todos Los Santos, Cathedral, Calabozo, Diocese of Calabozo
Ordained Priest Todos Los Santos, Cathedral, Calabozo, Diocese of Calabozo
Ordained Bishop Ste. Catherine, Cathedral, Mérida, Archdiocese of Mérida

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela.

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Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. †
Bishop of Calabozo
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. †
Bishop of Calabozo
Principal Consecrator:
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Miguel Antonio Salas Salas, C.I.M. †
Archbishop of Mérida
Archbishop Domingo Roa Pérez †
Archbishop of Maracaibo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Juan de Dios Peña Rojas (1992)
Bishop Gerardo Ernesto Salas Arjona (1992)
Bishop Luis Enrique Rojas Ruiz (1999)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Juan María Leonardi Villasmil † (1994)
Bishop Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap. (1996)
Bishop Ramiro Díaz Sánchez, O.M.I. (1997)
Bishop Luis Alfonso Márquez Molina, C.I.M. (2002)
Bishop Ramón José Viloria Pinzón, H.S.O.D. † (2004)
Bishop Alfredo Enrique Torres Rondón (2013)
Archbishop Raúl Biord Castillo, S.D.B. (2014)
Bishop Juan de Dios Peña Rojas (2015)
Archbishop Helizandro Emiro Terán Bermúdez, O.S.A. (2017)
Bishop Luis Enrique Rojas Ruiz (2017)
Bishop Ricardo Aldo Barreto Cairo (2019)
Bishop Carlos Eduardo Márquez Delima (2022)
Bishop Lisandro Alirio Rivas Durán, I.M.C. (2022)
Bishop Gerardo Ernesto Salas Arjona (2022)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Roberto Lückert León † (1985)
Bishop Joaquín José Morón Hidalgo † (1992)
Bishop Víctor Manuel Pérez Rojas † (1998)
Archbishop José Luis Azuaje Ayala (1999)
Bishop José Hernán Sánchez Porras † (2001)
Bishop Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje Pérez, O.C.D. † (2007)
Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate Salas (2008)
Bishop Fernando José Castro Aguayo (2009)
Bishop José Trinidad Fernández Angulo (2014)
Bishop Pablo Modesto González Pérez, S.D.B. (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Caracas, Archdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Ordained Deacon	Todos Los Santos, Cathedral, Calabozo, Diocese of Calabozo
Ordained Priest	Todos Los Santos, Cathedral, Calabozo, Diocese of Calabozo
Ordained Bishop	Ste. Catherine, Cathedral, Mérida, Archdiocese of Mérida

External Link(s):

VIAF: 69045295
WikiData: Q303314

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Deceased Cardinals (back)
card: Bollettino, 9 Oct 2016
i: Bollettino, 5 Jun 2017
aadm: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 82, Number 6,747
ab: Bollettino, 17 Jan 2023
r/od/c0: CB, 17 Jan 2023
i: CB, 28 Jan 2023
r: Bollettino, 28 Jun 2024

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