Bishop Leone Niccolai, O. Cart. †

Deceased

Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Sep 1782		Born
20 Dec 1806	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Carthusian Order
5 Nov 1849	67.1	Appointed	Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
9 Dec 1849	67.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy
13 Jul 1857	74.7	Died	Bishop of Pistoia e Prato, Italy

MicroData Summary
Leone Niccolai
Bishop Leone Niccolai O. Cart.
(born 28 Sep 1782, died 13 Jul 1857)
Bishop of Pistoia e Prato

Event Place
Birth Place Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}

a priest for 50.5 years
a bishop for 7.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ferdinando Minucci †
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francesco Bronzuoli †
Bishop of Fiesole
Bishop Giuseppe Antonio Giacomo Borghi, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Cortona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ferdinando Minucci † (1828)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Falzacappa † (1819)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/100897
VIAF: 304912059
WikiData: Q64736201

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 456
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1849, Number 60

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