Bishop Pier Giacomo Grampa

Bishop Emeritus of Lugano, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Oct 1936		Born
6 Dec 1959	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lugano, Switzerland
18 Dec 2003	67.1	Appointed	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland
25 Jan 2004	67.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland
4 Nov 2013	77.0	Retired	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Pier Giacomo Grampa
Bishop Pier Giacomo Grampa
(born 28 Oct 1936)
Bishop Emeritus of Lugano

Event Place
Birth Place Busto Arsizio, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Lorenzo, Cathedral, Lugano, Diocese of Lugano

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Lugano.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini †
Titular Bishop of Thermae Basilicae
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pier Giacomo De Nicolò †
Titular Archbishop of Martanae Tudertinorum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ernesto Togni †
Bishop Emeritus of Lugano
Bishop Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. †
Bishop of Chur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pier Giacomo De Nicolò † (1984)
Titular Archbishop of Martanae Tudertinorum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Valerio Lazzeri (2013)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 60162965
WikiData: Q537221

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Number 14,518
r: Bollettino, 4 Nov 2013
bpd: AM, 8 Jul 2019

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