Bishop Giuseppe Melas †

Deceased

Bishop of Nuoro, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Oct 1901		Born
15 Aug 1926	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cagliari, Italy
31 Jan 1947	45.2	Appointed	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
13 Apr 1947	45.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
1 Jun 1947	45.6	Installed	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
10 Sep 1970	68.9	Died	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giuseppe Melas
Bishop Giuseppe Melas
(born 13 Oct 1901, died 10 Sep 1970)
Bishop of Nuoro

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Guasila, Archdiocese of Cagliari
Ordained Priest Beata Vergine Assunta, Church, Guasila, Archdiocese of Cagliari
Ordained Bishop Nostra Signora di Bonaria, Basilica, Cagliari, Archdiocese of Cagliari
Death Place Nuoro, Diocese of Nuoro

a priest for 44.0 years
a bishop for 23.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Ernesto Maria Piovella, Obl. Rho †
Archbishop of Cagliari
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ernesto Maria Piovella, Obl. Rho †
Archbishop of Cagliari
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lorenzo Basoli †
Bishop of Ogliastra
Bishop Francesco Cogoni †
Bishop of Ozieri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ernesto Maria Piovella, Obl. Rho † (1907)
Archbishop of Cagliari
Archbishop Bl. Andrea Carlo Ferrari † (1890)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Ottorino Pietro Alberti † (1956)
Archbishop Ignazio Sanna (1967)
Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti (1970)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11860507

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1947, Number 23
c1/loc: CB, 20 Aug 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 599

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