Bishop Armando Bortolaso, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria

Titular Bishop of Raphanea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Aug 1926		Born
15 Jul 1953	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
9 Jul 1992	65.8	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria
9 Jul 1992	65.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Raphanea
4 Oct 1992	66.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Raphanea
21 Nov 2002	76.2	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria
8 Jan 2019	92.3	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria

MicroData Summary
Armando Bortolaso
Bishop Armando Bortolaso S.D.B.
(born 17 Aug 1926, died 8 Jan 2019)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Alep [Beroea, Halab]

Event Place
Birth Place Villaganzerla di Castegnero, Diocese of Vicenza, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Alep, Vicariate Apostolic of Alep [Beroea, Halab]
Death Place El Houssoun, Lebanon

a priest for 65.4 years
a bishop for 26.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Guerino Dominique Picchi, O.F.M. †
Titular Bishop of Sebaste in Palaestina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Néophytos Edelby, B.A. †
Archbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab] (Melkite Greek)
Archbishop Ignazio Bedini, S.D.B.
Archbishop of Ispahan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Guerino Dominique Picchi, O.F.M. † (1980)
Titular Bishop of Sebaste in Palaestina
Archbishop Angelo Pedroni † (1965)
Titular Archbishop of Novica
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo † (1960)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Cardinal Montini † (1954)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
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 Antoine Audo, S.J. (1992)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q678153

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133, Number 11,981
d: CB, 8 Jan 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)

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