Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari †

Deceased

Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan

Titular Archbishop of Numida

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Apr 1918		Born
21 Jul 1940	22.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Jun 1973	55.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Numida
6 Jun 1973	55.1	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to México
29 Jun 1973	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Numida
16 Nov 1977	59.6	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan
23 Jun 1983	65.2	Died	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan

MicroData Summary
Mario Pio Gaspari
Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari
(born 8 Apr 1918, died 23 Jun 1983)
Apostolic Pro-Nuncio of Japan

Event Place
Birth Place S. Felice sul Panaro
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 42.9 years
a bishop for 9.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agostino Casaroli †
Titular Archbishop of Cartagine
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Rafael Sandoval Sandoval, M.N.M. (1974)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jorge Bernal Vargas, L.C. † (1974)
Archbishop Rafael Bello Ruiz † (1974)
Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco (1974)
Archbishop José Fernández Arteaga † (1974)
Bishop Genaro Alamilla Arteaga † (1974)
Bishop Hermenegildo Ramírez Sánchez, M.J. † (1975)
Bishop José Alberto Llaguno Farias, S.J. † (1975)
Bishop Juvenal Porcayo Uribe † (1976)
Bishop Hilario Chávez Joya, M.N.M. † (1977)
Bishop Joseph Hisajiro Matsunaga † (1978)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Pedro Aranda Díaz-Muñoz † (1975)
Archbishop Luis Morales Reyes † (1976)
Archbishop Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto, Ist. del Prado † (1980)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1250395

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 21, Number 1,183
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 23, Number 1,281

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