Bishop Braulio Rafael Le�n Villegas †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzm�n, Jalisco, M�xico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Mar 1943		Born
17 May 1970	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Le�n, Guanajuato, M�xico
21 Feb 1990	46.9	Appointed	Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, M�xico
29 Mar 1990	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur, M�xico
11 Dec 1999	56.7	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Guzm�n, Jalisco, M�xico
25 Sep 2017	74.4	Retired	Bishop of Ciudad Guzm�n, Jalisco, M�xico
30 Dec 2024	81.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzm�n, Jalisco, M�xico

MicroData Summary
Braulio Rafael Le�n Villegas
Bishop Braulio Rafael Le�n Villegas
(born 26 Mar 1943, died 30 Dec 2024)
Bishop Emeritus of Ciudad Guzm�n

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

Event Place
Birth Place Le�n, Diocese of Le�n, Guanajuato
Ordained Priest Piazza San Pietro, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, La Paz, Diocese of La Paz en la Baja California Sur
Death Place Ciudad Guzm�n, Diocese of Ciudad Guzm�n, Jalisco

a priest for 54.6 years
a bishop for 34.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Girolamo Prigione †
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anselmo Zarza Bernal †
Bishop of Le�n, Guanajuato
Bishop Gilberto Valbuena S�nchez †
Bishop of Colima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Girolamo Prigione † (1968)
Titular Archbishop of Lauriacum
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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-Fran�ois) 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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q900538

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 123, Number 11,063
r: Bollettino, 25 Sep 2017
opd: CB, 19 Aug 2024
d: CB, 31 Dec 2024

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