Archbishop Riccardo Fontana

Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jan 1947		Born
2 Jul 1972	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pisa, Italy
16 Dec 1995	48.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Italy
6 Jan 1996	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Italy
13 Jan 1996	48.9	Installed	Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia, Italy
16 Jul 2009	62.4	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
13 Sep 2009	62.6	Installed	Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy
15 Sep 2022	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, Italy

MicroData Summary
Riccardo Fontana
Archbishop Riccardo Fontana
(born 20 Jan 1947)
Bishop Emeritus of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro

Ad Limina - February 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Forte dei Marmi, Archdiocese of Pisa
Ordained Priest Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Church, Pisa, Archdiocese of Pisa
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

Please contact the Archbishop through the Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Paolo Ghizzoni †
Bishop of San Miniato
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gino Reali (2002)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Roberto Filippini (2016)
Bishop Marco Salvi (2019)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 9449403
WikiData: Q2148772

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 16 Jul 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,641
r: Bollettino, 15 Sep 2022
bpd/c1/i: AM, 14 Oct 2024

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