Bishop Martino Canessa

Bishop Emeritus of Tortona, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jul 1938		Born
29 Jun 1962	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Genova, Italy
20 Jun 1989	50.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Genova-Bobbio, Italy
20 Jun 1989	50.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Mauretania
9 Jul 1989	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Mauretania
2 Feb 1996	57.5	Appointed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
13 Apr 1996	57.7	Installed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
15 Oct 2014	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Tortona, Italy

MicroData Summary
Martino Canessa
Bishop Martino Canessa
(born 22 Jul 1938)
Bishop Emeritus of Tortona

Ad Limina - February 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Voltri, Archdiocese of Genova
Ordained Priest Genvoa, Archdiocese of Genova
Ordained Bishop San Lorenzo, Cathedral, Genova, Archdiocese of Genova-Bobbio

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tortona.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Giuseppe Cardinal Siri †
Archbishop of Genova
Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Cardinal Canestri †
Archbishop of Genova-Bobbio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alessandro Piazza †
Bishop of Albenga-Imperia
Bishop Giacomo Barabino †
Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Cardinal Canestri † (1961)
Archbishop of Genova-Bobbio
Luigi Cardinal Traglia † (1937)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Andrea della Valle
Francesco Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani † (1918)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Giancarlo Dellagiovanna (1999)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alberto Tanasini † (1996)
Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, O.F.M. (2014)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q240196

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 124, Number 11,180
r: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2014
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 223, Deceased Cardinals (back)
c1/i/loc: AM, 20 Oct 2019

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