Bishop Alexander Maria Calefati †

Deceased

Bishop of Oria, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jun 1726		Born
27 Mar 1751	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Feb 1781	54.6	Selected	Bishop of Oria, Italy
17 Sep 1781	55.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Oria, Italy
21 Sep 1781	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Oria, Italy
30 Dec 1793	67.5	Died	Bishop of Oria, Italy

MicroData Summary
Alexander Maria Calefati
Bishop Alexander Maria Calefati
(born 25 Jun 1726, died 30 Dec 1793)
Bishop of Oria

Event Place
Birth Place Bari

a priest for 42.7 years
a bishop for 12.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Girolamo Volpi †
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto
Bishop Pier Luigi Galletti, O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Cyrene

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada † (1766)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/179846
VIAF: 107135924
WikiData: Q3610122

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 427
bp: CB, 6 Nov 2015
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1781, Number 20

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