Bishop Hernando Velásquez Lotero †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Facatativá, Colombia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jul 1926		Born
29 Oct 1950	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest
10 Dec 1971	45.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Popayán, Colombia
10 Dec 1971	45.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Garba
13 Feb 1972	45.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Garba
27 Apr 1973	46.8	Appointed	Bishop of Facatativá, Colombia
18 May 1985	58.8	Resigned	Bishop of Facatativá, Colombia
26 Apr 2004	77.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Facatativá, Colombia

MicroData Summary
Hernando Velásquez Lotero
Bishop Hernando Velásquez Lotero
(born 6 Jul 1926, died 26 Apr 2004)
Bishop Emeritus of Facatativá

Event Place
Birth Place Medellín, Archdiocese of Medellín
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 53.4 years
a bishop for 32.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink †
Archbishop of Utrecht
William John Cardinal Conway †
Archbishop of Armagh

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop José Roberto López Londoño † (1982)
Archbishop Fabio Betancur Tirado † (1982)
Bishop Jaime Prieto Amaya † (1993)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q19285508

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 17, Number 899

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