Bishop Luigi Antonio Cantafora †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lamezia Terme, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Apr 1943		Born
19 Jul 1969	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Crotone (Cotrone), Italy
24 Jan 2004	60.7	Appointed	Bishop of Lamezia Terme, Italy
25 Mar 2004	60.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lamezia Terme, Italy
2 Apr 2004	60.9	Installed	Bishop of Lamezia Terme, Italy
3 May 2019	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Lamezia Terme, Italy
19 Jul 2025	82.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lamezia Terme, Italy

MicroData Summary
Luigi Antonio Cantafora
Bishop Luigi Antonio Cantafora
(born 10 Apr 1943, died 19 Jul 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Lamezia Terme

Ad Limina - December 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Scandale, Diocese of Crotone (Cotrone)
Ordained Bishop Cathedral Basilica, Crotone, Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina
Death Place Crotone, Archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina

a priest for 56.0 years
a bishop for 21.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Pietro Raimondi †
Bishop of Crotone (Cotrone)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Andrea Mugione †
Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina
Bishop Vincenzo Rimedio
Bishop Emeritus of Lamezia Terme

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Paolo Romeo (1984)
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
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:
Archbishop Antonio Giuseppe Caiazzo (2016)
Bishop Giuseppe Schillaci (2019)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 32151897144124070882
WikiData: Q1876089

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Number 14,551
r: Bollettino, 3 May 2019
d: CB, 19 Jul 2025

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