Bishop Giuseppe Martinoli †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lugano, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Feb 1903		Born
11 Jun 1927	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lugano, Switzerland
30 Jul 1968	65.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Lugano, Switzerland
30 Jul 1968	65.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Camplum
15 Sep 1968	65.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Camplum
8 Mar 1971	68.0	Appointed	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland
15 Jul 1978	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Lugano, Switzerland
7 Dec 1994	91.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lugano, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Giuseppe Martinoli
Bishop Giuseppe Martinoli
(born 28 Feb 1903, died 7 Dec 1994)
Bishop Emeritus of Lugano

Event Place
Birth Place Marolta
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Lugano, Diocese of Lugano

a priest for 67.4 years
a bishop for 26.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ambrogio Marchioni †
Titular Archbishop of Severiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anton Hänggi †
Bishop of Basel e Lugano
Bishop François-Nestor Adam, C.R.B. †
Bishop of Sion {Sitten}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ambrogio Marchioni † (1961)
Titular Archbishop of Severiana
Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri † (1941)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
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 Ernesto Togni † (1978)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 314889517
WikiData: Q3770944

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Necrology (back)
ob/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 156, Additions/Corrections (front)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 6, Number 277

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