Bishop Vittorino Girardi Stellin, M.C.C.I.

Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán-Liberia, Costa Rica

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Mar 1938		Born
9 Sep 1962	24.4	Professed	Member of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
30 Mar 1963	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
13 Jul 2002	64.3	Appointed	Bishop of Tilarán, Costa Rica
21 Sep 2002	64.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tilarán, Costa Rica
6 Feb 2016	77.8	Retired	Bishop of Tilarán-Liberia, Costa Rica

MicroData Summary
Vittorino Girardi Stellin
Bishop Vittorino Girardi Stellin M.C.C.I.
(born 24 Mar 1938)
Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán-Liberia

Ad Limina - February 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lendinaria, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio Sozzo
Titular Archbishop of Concordia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Román Arrieta Villalobos †
Archbishop Emeritus of San José de Costa Rica
Bishop Héctor Morera Vega †
Bishop Emeritus of Tilarán

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antonio Sozzo (1995)
Titular Archbishop of Concordia
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora (2016)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bartolomé Buigues Oller, T.C. (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q935998

Source(s):

dname: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 736
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,254
r: Bollettino, 6 Feb 2016

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