Bishop Sauveur Casanova †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ajaccio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jun 1918		Born	Corte
24 Feb 1945	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ajaccio, France
13 Aug 1987	69.2	Appointed	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
15 Oct 1987	69.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
5 Jan 1995	76.6	Retired	Bishop of Ajaccio, France
26 May 1998	80.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ajaccio, France

a priest for 53.3 years
a bishop for 10.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Felici †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jean-François Mathieu Arrighi †
Bishop Jean-Charles Thomas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Sauveur Casanova † (1987)
Angelo Cardinal Felici † (1967)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105, Number 9,163
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)

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