Francesco Cardinal Colasuonno †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eugenio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jan 1925		Born
28 Sep 1947	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bari (-Canosa), Italy
6 Dec 1974	49.9	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Truentum
6 Dec 1974	49.9	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Mozambique
9 Feb 1975	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Truentum
7 Mar 1981	56.1	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Zimbabwe
8 Jan 1985	60.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Yugoslavia
9 Apr 1986	61.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Poland
15 Mar 1990	65.2	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Russian Federation
12 Nov 1994	69.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Italy
22 Apr 1995	70.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to San Marino
21 Feb 1998	73.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eugenio
21 Feb 1998	73.1	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 1998	73.1	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Italy
21 Feb 1998	73.1	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to San Marino
29 Nov 1998	73.9	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Eugenio
31 May 2003	78.4	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary
Francesco Colasuonno
Francesco Cardinal Colasuonno
(born 2 Jan 1925, died 31 May 2003)
Apostolic Nuncio

Consistory - 1998: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Grumo Appula
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Bari, Archdiocese of Bari (-Canosa), Italy

a priest for 55.6 years
a bishop for 28.3 years
a cardinal for 5.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Marcello Mimmi †
Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa)
Principal Consecrator:
Corrado Cardinal Ursi †
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, O.C.D. †
Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Corrado Cardinal Ursi † (1951)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Archbishop Carlo Confalonieri † (1941)
Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
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 Bernardo Filipe Governo, O.F.M. Cap. † (1976)
Archbishop Ján Sokol (1988)
Bishop Georgi Ivanov Yovchev (1988)
Archbishop György-Miklós Jakubínyi (1990)
Bishop Pál Reizer † (1990)
Bishop Jan Purwinski † (1991)
Archbishop Jan Paweł Lenga, M.I.C. (1991)
Jānis Cardinal Pujats (1991)
Bishop Joseph Werth, S.J. (1991)
Bishop Jānis Bulis (1991)
Archbishop Michele Seccia (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Júlio Duarte Cardinal Langa (1976)
Bishop Jan Lebeda † (1988)
Bishop Antonín Liška, C.SS.R. † (1988)
Bishop Jan Bernard Szlaga † (1988)
Archbishop František Vaňák † (1989)
Bishop Josef Koukl † (1989)
Bishop František Tondra † (1989)
Archbishop Józef Kowalczyk (1989)
Archbishop Edmond Youssef Farhat † (1989)
Archbishop Januariusz Mikołaj Bolonek † (1989)
Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz (1989)
Archbishop John Bukovsky (Fukna), S.V.D. † (1990)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Grumo Appula
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Bari, Archdiocese of Bari (-Canosa), Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 85457485
WikiData: Q948373

Source(s):

i: Bollettino, 25 Nov 1998
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 28, Number 1,602

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