Bishop Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B.

Bishop Emeritus of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles

Motto: Veritatem Facientes In Caritate

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Jun 1947		Born
27 Apr 1975	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
24 Jun 2000	53.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles
28 Oct 2000	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles
11 Oct 2001	54.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles
7 Jan 2025	77.5	Retired	Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Antilles

MicroData Summary
Luigi Antonio Secco
Bishop Luigi Antonio Secco S.D.B.
(born 8 Jun 1947)
Bishop Emeritus of Willemstad

Ad Limina - April 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Piazzola sul Brenta, Diocese of Vicenza, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Willemstad, Diocese of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Willemstad.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Wilhelm Michel Ellis †
Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antonio Ignacio Velasco Garcia, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela
Bishop José Ángel Divassón Cilveti, S.D.B.
Titular Bishop of Bamaccora

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Wilhelm Michel Ellis † (1973)
Bishop of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles
Bishop Joannes Maria Michael Holterman, O.P. † (1957)
Vicar Apostolic of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
Archbishop Raffaele Forni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jonny Eduardo Reyes Sequera, S.D.B. (2016)
Bishop Enrique José Parravano Marino, S.D.B. (2016)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1876088

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 161, Number 13,857
r: Bollettino, 7 Jan 2025

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