Bishop Giovanni Andrea Serrao †

Deceased

Bishop of Potenza, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1731		Born
15 Mar 1755	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
8 Jun 1782	51.3	Selected	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
18 Jul 1783	52.4	Confirmed	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
20 Jul 1783	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Potenza, Italy
24 Feb 1799	68.0	Died	Bishop of Potenza, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giovanni Andrea Serrao
Bishop Giovanni Andrea Serrao
(born 4 Feb 1731, died 24 Feb 1799)
Bishop of Potenza

Event Place
Birth Place Castelmonardo

a priest for 43.9 years
a bishop for 15.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Innocenzo Cardinal Conti †
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Orazio Mattei †
Titular Archbishop of Colossae
Archbishop Girolamo Volpi †
Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Innocenzo Cardinal Conti † (1769)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/196240
VIAF: 62431119
WikiData: Q3766407

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 347
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1783, Number 15

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