Bishop Gastone Simoni

Bishop Emeritus of Prato

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Apr 1937		Born	Castelfranco di Sopra
1 Jan 1960	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
7 Dec 1991	54.7	Appointed	Bishop of Prato, Italy
6 Jan 1992	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Prato, Italy
23 Feb 1992	54.9	Installed	Bishop of Prato, Italy
29 Sep 2012	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Prato, Italy

Ad Limina - April 2007: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Prato.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †
Titular Archbishop of Tharros

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(Bl. 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gabriele Marchesi (2013)

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 128, Number 11,556
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 129
r: Bollettino, 29 Sep 2012

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