Bishop Gianfranco Todisco, P.O.C.R.

Bishop Emeritus of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Mar 1946		Born
4 Oct 1968	22.5	Professed	Member of Pious Workers Rural Catechists
5 Dec 1970	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pious Workers Rural Catechists
13 Dec 2002	56.7	Appointed	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy
8 Feb 2003	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy
21 Apr 2017	71.0	Resigned	Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa, Italy

MicroData Summary
Gianfranco Todisco
Bishop Gianfranco Todisco P.O.C.R.
(born 23 Mar 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Napoli, Archdiocese of Napoli {Naples}

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giuseppe Agostino †
Archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano
Bishop Vincenzo Cozzi †
Bishop Emeritus of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Paolo Romeo (1984)
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
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: Q936840

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 170, Number 14,324
r: Bollettino, 21 Apr 2017

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