Bishop Giovanni Melis Fois †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Nuoro, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Oct 1916		Born
13 Aug 1939	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oristano, Italy
25 May 1963	46.6	Appointed	Bishop of Ampurias e Tempio, Italy
28 Jul 1963	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ampurias e Tempio, Italy
7 Nov 1970	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
16 Apr 1992	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Nuoro, Italy
3 Sep 2009	92.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Nuoro, Italy

MicroData Summary for Giovanni Melis Fois
(VIAF: 5920159477646927990000; WikiData: Q1394269)
Bishop Giovanni Melis Fois (born 7 Oct 1916, died 3 Sep 2009) Bishop Emeritus of Nuoro

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 Sorgono, Archdiocese of Oristano
Ordained Bishop Assomption, Cathedral, Oristano, Archdiocese of Oristano

a priest for 70.0 years
a bishop for 46.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Sebastiano Fraghí †
Archbishop of Oristano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paolo Carta †
Archbishop of Sassari
Bishop Antonio Tedde †
Bishop of Ales e Terralba

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Sebastiano Fraghí † (1947)
Archbishop of Oristano
Bishop Francesco Cogoni † (1939)
Bishop of Ozieri
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 Mario Roberto Cassari † (1969)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Salvatore Delogu † (1972)
Archbishop Ottorino Pietro Alberti † (1973)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Sorgono, Archdiocese of Oristano
Ordained Bishop	Assomption, Cathedral, Oristano, Archdiocese of Oristano

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 74
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)

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