Bishop Giambattista Pensa †

Deceased

Bishop of Fossano, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Jul 1704		Born
20 Sep 1727	23.1	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
18 Dec 1728	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Feb 1741	36.6	Selected	Bishop of Fossano, Italy
17 Apr 1741	36.7	Confirmed	Bishop of Fossano, Italy
23 Apr 1741	36.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fossano, Italy
1 Jun 1754	49.8	Died	Bishop of Fossano, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giambattista Pensa
Bishop Giambattista Pensa
(born 10 Jul 1704, died 1 Jun 1754)
Bishop of Fossano

Event Place
Birth Place Monreale

a priest for 25.4 years
a bishop for 13.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Benedict XIV
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Celestino Galiano, O.S.B. †
Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
Archbishop Ferdinando Maria de Rossi †
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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:
Archbishop Nicola Maurizio Fontana † (1744)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64777686

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 219
c34: CB, 12 May 2013
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1741, Number 28

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