Bishop Ernesto Fontana †

Deceased

Bishop of Crema, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Oct 1830		Born
1 Apr 1854	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 May 1894	63.6	Appointed	Bishop of Crema, Italy
24 May 1894	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Crema, Italy
4 Nov 1910	80.0	Died	Bishop of Crema, Italy

MicroData Summary for Ernesto Fontana
(VIAF: 88863984; WikiData: Q3732237)
Bishop Ernesto Fontana (born 7 Oct 1830, died 4 Nov 1910) Bishop of Crema

Event Place
Birth Place Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Ordained Bishop College Lombard, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a priest for 56.5 years
a bishop for 16.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francesco di Paola Cassetta †
Titular Archbishop of Nicomedia
Archbishop Felix-Marie de Neckere †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Agostino Cattaneo † (1910)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Giuseppe Salvatore Scatti † (1898)
Archbishop Natale Bruni † (1900)
Bishop Luigi Boschi † (1902)
Archbishop Giovanni Festa † (1902)
Archbishop Giovanni Régine † (1902)

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 230
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1894, Number 13

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