Bishop Sergio Adolfo Govi, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa, Central African Republic

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1934		Born
2 Apr 1960	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
5 Jun 1975	40.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
5 Jun 1975	40.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tortibulum
26 Oct 1975	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tortibulum
22 Apr 1978	43.8	Succeeded	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
10 Jun 1995	60.9	Resigned	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
31 May 2016	81.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa, Central African Republic

MicroData Summary for Sergio Adolfo Govi
(WikiData: Q969803)
Bishop Sergio Adolfo Govi O.F.M. Cap. (born 30 Jun 1934, died 31 May 2016) Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa

Event Place
Birth Place Ospitaletto
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Modena, Archdiocese of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy

a priest for 56.1 years
a bishop for 40.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Léon-Toussaint-Jean-Clément Chambon, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Bossangoa
Bishop Bruno Foresti †
Titular Bishop of Plestia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernardin Gantin † (1957)
Archbishop Emeritus of Cotonou
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michel Marie Joseph Maître, C.S.Sp. † (1981)
Archbishop Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, O.F.M. Cap. † (1983)
Bishop Edouard Mathos † (1988)

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 2 Jun 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 32, Number 1,847

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