Bishop Giovanni Maria Visconte Proto, O.S.B. †

Deceased

Bishop of Cefalù, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Feb 1781		Born
1802¹	20.8	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
17 Feb 1805	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
18 Feb 1839	58.0	Appointed	Bishop of Lipari, Italy
Apr 1839³	58.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lipari, Italy
20 May 1844	63.2	Selected	Bishop of Cefalù, Italy
17 Jun 1844	63.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Cefalù, Italy
13 Oct 1854	73.6	Died	Bishop of Cefalù, Italy

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Giovanni Maria Visconte Proto
(VIAF: 305357959; WikiData: Q41634929)
Bishop Giovanni Maria Visconte Proto O.S.B. (born 15 Feb 1781, died 13 Oct 1854) Bishop of Cefalù

Event Place
Birth Place Milazzo
Ordained Bishop Messina, Archdiocese of Messina

a priest for 49.6 years
a bishop for 15.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francesco di Paola Villadecani †
Archbishop of Messina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francesco di Paola Villadecani † (1820)
Archbishop of Messina
Bishop Silvestro Todaro, O.F.M. Conv. † (1808)
Bishop of Patti
Archbishop Gaetano Maria Garrasi, O.E.S.A. † (1792)
Archbishop of Messina
Andrea Cardinal Corsini † (1776)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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

Assisted:
Bishop Giovanni Portelli † (1831)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Milazzo
Ordained Bishop	Messina, Archdiocese of Messina

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 146, and Page 241
b/c2: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1839, Number 6

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