Bishop Felice di Molfetta

Bishop Emeritus of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Apr 1940		Born
29 Jun 1966	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Molfetta, Giovinazzo e Terlizzi, Italy
29 Apr 2000	60.0	Appointed	Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy
1 Jul 2000	60.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy
15 Jul 2000	60.2	Installed	Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy
1 Oct 2015	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano, Italy

MicroData Summary
Felice di Molfetta
Bishop Felice di Molfetta
(born 7 Apr 1940)
Bishop Emeritus of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano

Ad Limina - March 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - May 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Terlizzi, Diocese of Molfetta, Giovinazzo e Terlizzi
Ordained Priest Terlizzi, Diocese of Molfetta, Giovinazzo e Terlizzi
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Piazza Cavour, Terlizzi, Diocese of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Cerignola-Ascoli Satriano.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Achille Salvucci †
Bishop of Molfetta, Giovinazzo e Terlizzi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Donato Negro
Archbishop of Otranto
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri †
Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (-Nazareth)
Bishop Marcello Semeraro
Bishop of Oria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Donato Negro (1994)
Archbishop of Otranto
Archbishop Cosmo Francesco Ruppi † (1980)
Archbishop of Lecce
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Nunzio Galantino (2012)
Archbishop Luigi Renna (2016)
Bishop Giacomo Cirulli (2017)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 173449888
WikiData: Q1403010

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 160, Number 13,804
r: Bollettino, 1 Oct 2015
loc/c1: AM, 1 Apr 2023

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