Guglielmo Cardinal Massaia, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Galla

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio

Titular Archbishop of Stauropolis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Jun 1809		Born	Piovà, Italy
9 Sep 1825	16.3	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
16 Jun 1832	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
12 May 1846	36.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Galla, Ethiopia
12 May 1846	36.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Casius
24 May 1846	37.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Casius
23 May 1880	71.0	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Galla, Ethiopia
2 Aug 1881	72.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Stauropolis
10 Nov 1884	75.4	Elevated to Cardinal
13 Nov 1884	75.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio
6 Aug 1889	80.2	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Galla, Ethiopia

Consistory - November 1884: Created Cardinal

a priest for 57.1 years
a bishop for 43.2 years
a cardinal for 4.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Giovanni Cardinal Brunelli †
Bishop Jean-Félix-Onésime Luquet, M.E.P. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Guglielmo Cardinal Massaia, O.F.M. Cap. † (1846)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop St. Giustino Sebastiano Pasquale de Jacobis, C.M. † (1849)
Bishop Felicissimo Coccino (Cocchino), O.F.M. Cap. † (1859)
Bishop Louis-Taurin Cahagne, O.F.M. Cap. † (1875)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis Bel, C.M. † (1865)
Bishop Eusebio Magner, O.F.M. Cap. † (1881)

Source(s):

c2+: CB
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 528, and Page 53
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 138
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 10 Nov 1884

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