Archbishop Luigi Bressan

Archbishop Emeritus of Trento, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Feb 1940		Born
28 Jun 1964	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trento, Italy
2 Mar 1983	43.0	Appointed	Permanent Observer to Council of Europe
3 Apr 1989	49.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Severiana
3 Apr 1989	49.1	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Pakistan
18 Jun 1989	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Severiana
26 Jul 1993	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Singapore
26 Jul 1993	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Thailand
26 Jul 1993	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia and Brunei
26 Jul 1993	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Laos
26 Jul 1993	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Myanmar
16 Jul 1994	54.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cambodia
2 Feb 1998	57.9	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Malaysia
2 Feb 1998	57.9	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Brunei Darussalam
25 Mar 1999	59.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Trento, Italy
30 May 1999	59.3	Installed	Archbishop of Trento, Italy
10 Feb 2016	76.0	Retired	Archbishop of Trento, Italy

MicroData Summary for Luigi Bressan
(VIAF: 90162607; WikiData: Q1225078)
Archbishop Luigi Bressan (born 9 Feb 1940) Archbishop Emeritus of Trento

Ad Limina - April 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sarche, Archdiocese of Trento
Ordained Priest San Vigilio, Cathedral, Trento, Archdiocese of Trento
Ordained Bishop San Vigilio, Cathedral, Trento, Archdiocese of Trento

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Trento.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Alessandro Maria Gottardi †
Archbishop of Trento
Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia
Archbishop Giovanni Maria Sartori †
Archbishop of Trento

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Philip Lasap Za Hawng (1994)
Bishop Peter Louis Cakü † (1997)
Bishop Mariano Manzana (2004)
Bishop Ivo Muser (2011)
Archbishop Lauro Tisi (2016)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Émile Jean Marie Henri Joseph Destombes, M.E.P. † (1997)
Bishop Guido Zendron (2008)
Bishop Karl Golser † (2009)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Sarche, Archdiocese of Trento
Ordained Priest	San Vigilio, Cathedral, Trento, Archdiocese of Trento
Ordained Bishop	San Vigilio, Cathedral, Trento, Archdiocese of Trento

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 116, Number 10,351
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 10 Feb 2016
c1/loc: AM, 1 Aug 2018
xx05: Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 75, Page 343

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