Bishop Oscar Efra�n Tamez Villarreal

Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, M�xico

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Sep 1973		Born
15 Aug 2003	29.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, M�xico
31 Oct 2016	43.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n, M�xico
31 Oct 2016	43.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Madaurus
11 Jan 2017	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Madaurus
23 Sep 2021	48.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, M�xico
17 Nov 2021	48.2	Installed	Bishop of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, M�xico
17 Mar 2025	51.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Tampico, Tamaulipas, M�xico

MicroData Summary
Oscar Efra�n Tamez Villarreal
Bishop Oscar Efra�n Tamez Villarreal
(born 4 Sep 1973)
Bishop of Ciudad Victoria

Event Place
Birth Place Allende
Ordained Bishop Nuestra Se�ora de Guadalupe, Basilica, Monterrey, Archdiocese of Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ciudad Victoria.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera L�pez
Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Jos� Francisco Cardinal Robles Ortega
Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco
Archbishop Franco Coppola
Titular Archbishop of Vinda
Bishop Jorge Alberto Cavazos Arizpe
Bishop of San Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco
Bishop Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola
Titular Bishop of Idicra

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera L�pez (1996)
Archbishop of Monterrey, Nuevo Le�n
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: Q27653556

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 31 Oct 2016
ob: CB, 5 Nov 2016
ob: CB, 13 Nov 2016
c2+: CB, 11 Jan 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Number 19,316
ab: Bollettino, 23 Sep 2021
i: CB, 8 Oct 2021
aadm: CB, 8 Mar 2025

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