Archbishop Alberto Bottari de Castello †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Opitergium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jul 1942		Born
11 Sep 1966	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Treviso, Italy
18 Dec 1999	57.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Foratiana
18 Dec 1999	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Gambia
18 Dec 1999	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Guinea
18 Dec 1999	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Liberia
18 Dec 1999	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sierra Leone
6 Jan 2000	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Foratiana
1 Apr 2005	62.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Japan
8 Dec 2007	65.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Opitergium
6 Jun 2011	68.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary
Dec 2017²	75.4	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary
13 Jul 2025	83.0	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Alberto Bottari de Castello
Archbishop Alberto Bottari de Castello
(born 5 Jul 1942, died 13 Jul 2025)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Montebelluna, Diocese of Treviso, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Ca' Foncello, Civil, Hospital, Treviso, Diocese of Treviso, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Communal, Cemetery, Montebelluna, Diocese of Treviso, Italy

a priest for 58.8 years
a bishop for 25.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Antonio Mistrorigo †
Bishop of Treviso
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Marcello Zago, O.M.I. †
Titular Archbishop of Rusellae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. 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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Eijiro Suwa (2011)
Bishop György Snell † (2014)
Bishop László Varga (2017)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Montebelluna, Diocese of Treviso, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Ca' Foncello, Civil, Hospital, Treviso, Diocese of Treviso, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Communal, Cemetery, Montebelluna, Diocese of Treviso, Italy

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q578877

Source(s):

ab: CB, 29 Jan 2008
ab: Bollettino, 6 Jun 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13,662
r: CB, 22 Dec 2017
bpd/c1: AM, 8 Feb 2024
d: CB, 14 Jul 2025

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