Bishop Luigi Testore

Bishop of Acqui, Italy

Apostolic Administrator of Alessandria (della Paglia)

Motto: Surgens Secutus Est Eum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Apr 1952		Born
11 Jun 1977	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy
19 Jan 2018	65.7	Appointed	Bishop of Acqui, Italy
24 Feb 2018	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Acqui, Italy
11 Mar 2018	65.8	Installed	Bishop of Acqui, Italy
11 Sep 2026	74.3	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Alessandria (della Paglia), Italy

MicroData Summary
Luigi Testore
Bishop Luigi Testore
(born 30 Apr 1952)
Bishop of Acqui

Ad Limina - January 2024 (Italy, Piemonte): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Costigliole d’Asti, Diocese of Asti
Ordained Priest Duomo, Cathedral, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Ordained Bishop Sant’Ambrogio, Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Acqui.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Enrico Delpini
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli
Archbishop of Gorizia
Bishop Erminio De Scalzi
Titular Bishop of Arbanum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Enrico Delpini (2007)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi † (1989)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, S.J. † (1980)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q47461722

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 19 Jan 2018
ob/c2: CB, 19 Jan 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 235, Number 19,682
aadm: CB, 11 Sep 2026

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