Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo

Archbishop of Medellín, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 May 1951		Born
7 Sep 1975	24.3	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
21 Nov 1975	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia
25 Apr 2003	51.9	Appointed	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
14 Jun 2003	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
5 Jul 2003	52.1	Installed	Bishop of Sonsón-Rionegro, Colombia
16 Feb 2010	58.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Medellín, Colombia
8 May 2010	59.0	Installed	Archbishop of Medellín, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobón Restrepo
(born 8 May 1951)
Archbishop of Medellín

Ad Limina - June 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ituango, Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos
Ordained Priest Santa Rosa de Osos, Cathedral, Santa Rosa de Osos, Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos
Ordained Bishop Santa Rosa de Osos, Cathedral, Santa Rosa de Osos, Diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Medellín.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Joaquín García Ordóñez †
Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joaquín García Ordóñez †
Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Beniamino Stella
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo, P.S.S. †
Archbishop of Medellín
Bishop Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve
Bishop of Santa Rosa de Osos

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Beniamino Stella (1987)
Titular Archbishop of Midila
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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:
Archbishop Hugo Alberto Torres Marín (2011)
Bishop Edgar Aristizábal Quintero (2011)
Bishop Elkin Fernando Álvarez Botero † (2012)
Bishop Luis Albeiro Maldonado Monsalve (2015)
Bishop José Mauricio Vélez García (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Guillermo Orozco Montoya (2006)
Archbishop Omar de Jesús Mejía Giraldo (2013)
Archbishop Gabriel Ángel Villa Vahos (2014)
Archbishop Luis Fernando Rodríguez Velásquez (2014)
Bishop Óscar Augusto Múnera Ochoa (2015)
Bishop Juan Fernando Franco Sánchez (2022)
Bishop Juan Manuel Toro Vallejo (2024)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q370730

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 16 Feb 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Number 14,410

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