Bishop Gianfranco Masserdotti, M.C.C.I. †

Deceased

Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Sep 1941		Born
26 Mar 1966	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
22 Nov 1995	54.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
2 Mar 1996	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
15 Apr 1998	56.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil
17 Sep 2006	65.0	Died	Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Gianfranco Masserdotti
Bishop Gianfranco Masserdotti M.C.C.I.
(born 13 Sep 1941, died 17 Sep 2006)
Bishop of Balsas

Event Place
Birth Place Brescia, Diocese of Brescia, Italy
Ordained Priest Padova, Diocese of Padova {Padua}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Atrium, Cathedral, Balsas, Diocese of Balsas, Maranhão

a priest for 40.4 years
a bishop for 10.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Rino Carlesi, M.C.C.I. †
Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte †
Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão
Bishop Aldo Gerna, F.S.C.J.
Bishop of São Mateus, Espirito Santo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Rino Carlesi, M.C.C.I. † (1967)
Bishop of Balsas, Maranhão
Bishop Mario Longo Dorni † (1954)
Bishop of Pistoia
Bishop Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C. † (1945)
Bishop of Novara
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Sebastião Bandeira Coêlho (2005)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1522449

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,690
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Necrology (back)

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