Opilio Cardinal Rossi †

Deceased

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses

Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 May 1910		Born
11 Mar 1933	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Piacenza, Italy
21 Nov 1953	43.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Ancyra
21 Nov 1953	43.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Ecuador
27 Dec 1953	43.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Ancyra
25 Mar 1959	48.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile
25 Sep 1961	51.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
24 May 1976	66.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio
24 May 1976	66.0	Elevated to Cardinal
10 Dec 1976	66.5	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
10 Dec 1976	66.5	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Committee for the Family
9 May 1981	70.9	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
8 Apr 1984	73.9	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
22 Jun 1987	77.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
3 Jan 1991	80.6	Retired	President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses
9 Feb 2004	93.7	Died	President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses

MicroData Summary
Opilio Rossi
Opilio Cardinal Rossi
(born 14 May 1910, died 9 Feb 2004)
President Emeritus of International Eucharistic Congresses

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Consistory - 1976: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA
Ordained Priest Piacenza, Diocese of Piacenza, Italy
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria Assunta, Cathedral, Piacenza, Diocese of Piacenza, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 70.9 years
a bishop for 50.1 years
a cardinal for 27.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Ersilio Menzani †
Bishop of Piacenza
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench †
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Umberto Malchiodi †
Titular Archbishop of Serrae
Bishop Artemio Prati †
Bishop of Carpi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench † (1935)
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Leonidas Eduardo Proaño Villalba † (1954)
Bishop Luis Alfredo Carvajal Rosales † (1955)
Bishop Angelo Barbisotti, F.S.C.J. † (1958)
Bishop José Félix Pintado Blasco, S.D.B. † (1959)
Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez, S.D.B. † (1959)
Archbishop Manuel Sánchez Beguiristáin † (1960)
Archbishop Giovanni Moretti † (1971)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Henri Lemaître † (1969)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/325955
VIAF: 54180769
WikiData: Q698369

Source(s):

c2+: CB
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 10 Apr 2017
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 115
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1953, Number 112

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