Bishop José Raúl Vera López, O.P.

Bishop Emeritus of Saltillo, Coahuila, México

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jun 1945		Born
29 Jun 1975	30.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
20 Nov 1987	42.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México
6 Jan 1988	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero, México
14 Aug 1995	50.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
30 Dec 1999	54.5	Appointed	Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, México
21 Nov 2020	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Saltillo, Coahuila, México

MicroData Summary
José Raúl Vera López
Bishop José Raúl Vera López O.P.
(born 21 Jun 1945)
Bishop Emeritus of Saltillo

Ad Limina - September 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2014: Bishop

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

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Saltillo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Mario Alberto Avilés Campos, C.O. (1998)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q707564

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 107, Number 9,427
r: Bollettino, 21 Nov 2020

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