Bishop Orazio Francesco Piazza

Bishop of Viterbo, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Oct 1953		Born
25 Jun 1978	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Telese o Cerreto Sannita, Italy
25 Jun 2013	59.7	Appointed	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy
21 Sep 2013	59.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy
4 Oct 2013	60.0	Installed	Bishop of Sessa Aurunca, Italy
30 Apr 2019	65.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy
14 Mar 2021	67.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Alife-Caiazzo, Italy
7 Oct 2022	69.0	Appointed	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy
3 Dec 2022	69.1	Installed	Bishop of Viterbo, Italy

MicroData Summary for Orazio Francesco Piazza
(VIAF: 11669662; WikiData: Q13561034)
Bishop Orazio Francesco Piazza (born 4 Oct 1953) Bishop of Viterbo

Ad Limina - March 2024 (Italy, Lazio): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Solopaca, Diocese of Telese o Cerreto Sannita
Ordained Bishop Comunale Alterio, Stadium, Telese Terme, Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Viterbo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Felice Leonardo †
Bishop of Telese o Cerreto Sannita
Principal Consecrator:
Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michele De Rosa
Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti
Archbishop Antonio Franco
Titular Archbishop of Gallesium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe (1992)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Solopaca, Diocese of Telese o Cerreto Sannita
Ordained Bishop	Comunale Alterio, Stadium, Telese Terme, Diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 25 Jun 2013
ob/c2: CB, 10 Jul 2013
c34: CB, 16 Sep 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Number 17,878
ab: Bollettino, 30 Apr 2019
ab: Bollettino, 7 Oct 2022
c1: CB, 14 Oct 2022
loc/i: AM, 24 Oct 2022

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