Bishop Giovanni Fossà †

Deceased

Bishop of Fiesole, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jan 1853		Born
8 Aug 1875	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vicenza, Italy
29 Apr 1909	56.2	Appointed	Bishop of Fiesole, Italy
27 Jun 1909	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fiesole, Italy
17 Dec 1936	83.9	Died	Bishop of Fiesole, Italy

MicroData Summary for Giovanni Fossà
(VIAF: 306321038; WikiData: Q13550395)
Bishop Giovanni Fossà (born 17 Jan 1853, died 17 Dec 1936) Bishop of Fiesole

Event Place
Birth Place Gambellara
Ordained Bishop Lonigo

a priest for 61.3 years
a bishop for 27.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Antonio Feruglio †
Bishop of Vicenza
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bl. Andrea Giacinto Bonaventura Longhin, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Treviso
Bishop Andrea Caron †
Bishop of Ceneda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Antonio Feruglio † (1893)
Bishop of Vicenza
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Giuseppe Fabbrucci † (1915)
Bishop Giuseppe Conti † (1917)
Archbishop Antonio Torrini † (1919)
Archbishop Settimio Peroni † (1929)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Giorgio de Lucchi † (1911)
Bishop Gioacchino Bonardi † (1928)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gambellara
Ordained Bishop	Lonigo

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1933
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1937
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1909, Number 36
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 33, Number 1,905

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