Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Cardinal Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. †

Deceased

Prefect of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious

Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Sep 1842		Born
2 Sep 1860	17.9	Entered	Member of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
17 Sep 1861	18.9	First Vows	Member of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
12 Oct 1864	22.0	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
4 Jan 1866	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Reformed Friars Minor
11 Jul 1892	49.8	Appointed	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
17 Jul 1892	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lacedonia, Italy
29 Nov 1895	53.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Acerenza e Matera, Italy
3 Aug 1899	56.8	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Canada and Newfoundland
30 Sep 1899	57.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
30 Sep 1902	60.0	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to United States of America
1911¹	68.2	Resigned	Apostolic Delegate to United States of America
27 Nov 1911	69.1	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Nov 1911	69.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
25 May 1914	71.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
26 Feb 1916	73.4	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious
8 Feb 1917	74.3	Died	Prefect of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio
Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Cardinal Falconio O.F.M. Ref.
(born 20 Sep 1842, died 8 Feb 1917)
Prefect of Affairs of Religious

Consistory - 1911: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1914: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Pescocostanzo, Territorial Abbey of Montecassino, Italy
Ordained Priest Buffalo, Diocese of Buffalo, New York, USA
Ordained Bishop S. Antonio in Via Merulana, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Franciscan church, Pescocostanzo

a priest for 51.0 years
a bishop for 24.5 years
a cardinal for 5.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Timon, C.M. †
Bishop of Buffalo, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antonio Maria Grasselli, O.F.M. Conv. †
Titular Archbishop of Colossae
Archbishop Tancredo Fausti †
Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 John Bernard Delany (Delaney) † (1904)
Bishop Augustine Francis Schinner † (1905)
Bishop George Albert Guertin † (1907)
Bishop Laureano Vérez (Veres) de Acevedo, S.J. † (1908)
Bishop Edmund Michael Dunne † (1909)
Bishop John Bernard MacGinley † (1910)
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop John Ward † (1911)
Bishop Rocco Caliandro † (1912)
Bishop Alojzije Stjepan Mišić, O.F.M. † (1912)
Bishop Emmanuel Josip Stepan Garić, O.F.M. † (1913)
Archbishop John Thomas McNally † (1913)
Bishop Charles Warren Currier † (1913)
Bishop Giovanni Onorato Carcaterra, O.F.M. † (1914)
Bishop Pacifico Monza, O.F.M. † (1915)
Bishop Nicola Rotoli, O.F.M. † (1916)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Bernardino (Giuseppe) dal Vago (da Portogruaro), O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pescocostanzo, Territorial Abbey of Montecassino, Italy
Ordained Priest	Buffalo, Diocese of Buffalo, New York, USA
Ordained Bishop	S. Antonio in Via Merulana, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Franciscan church, Pescocostanzo

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/152917
VIAF: 53303911
WikiData: Q1226904

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 73, and Page 333
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 334
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 27 Nov 1911
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1892, Number 42
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 6, Number 290, Ascendance
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 183, to Page 187

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