Bishop Martino Scarafile †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Castellaneta, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jul 1927		Born
23 Jul 1950	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Monopoli, Italy
20 Dec 1980	53.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Conversano, Italy
20 Dec 1980	53.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rotaria
6 Jan 1981	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rotaria
31 Oct 1985	58.3	Appointed	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy
14 Feb 2003	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Castellaneta, Italy
27 Dec 2011	84.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Castellaneta, Italy

MicroData Summary
Martino Scarafile
Bishop Martino Scarafile
(born 1 Jul 1927, died 27 Dec 2011)
Bishop Emeritus of Castellaneta

Event Place
Birth Place Cisternino
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a priest for 61.4 years
a bishop for 30.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Canestri †
Titular Archbishop of Forum Clodii
Bishop Belchior Joaquim da Silva Neto, C.M. †
Bishop of Luz, Minas Gerais

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pietro Maria Fragnelli (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1905652

Source(s):

d: CB, 27 Dec 2011
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 64, Number 5,016

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