Archbishop Giovanni Ponzi †

Deceased

Titular Archbishop of Sardes

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Dec 1830		Born
20 Dec 1856	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 May 1894	63.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia
27 May 1894	63.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia
18 Mar 1895	64.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Sardes
8 Apr 1896	65.3	Died	Titular Archbishop of Sardes

MicroData Summary
Giovanni Ponzi
Archbishop Giovanni Ponzi
(born 19 Dec 1830, died 8 Apr 1896)
Titular Archbishop of Sardes

Event Place
Birth Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Capranica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 39.3 years
a bishop for 1.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edmund Stonor †
Titular Archbishop of Trapezus
Archbishop Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella †
Titular Archbishop of Tyana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Antonino Sardi † (1894)
Bishop Maximilian Gereon von Galen † (1895)
Bishop Domenico Rinaldi † (1895)
Archbishop Orazio Mazzella † (1896)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64746048

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 382, and Page 501
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1894, Number 17

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