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Bishop Paolo Urso

Bishop Emeritus of Ragusa, Italy

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Acireale, Diocese of Acireale
Ordained Bishop	San Giovanni Battista, Cathedral, Ragusa, Diocese of Ragusa

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ragusa. a priest for years a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator: Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi Archbishop of Palermo Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Salvatore Gristina Bishop of Acireale Archbishop Paolo Romeo Titular Archbishop of Vulturia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi (1973) Archbishop of Palermo Bishop Francesco Minerva † (1948) Bishop of Lecce Archbishop Ferdinando Bernardi † (1931) Archbishop of Taranto Archbishop Lorenzo Angelo Bartolomasi † (1911) Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886) Archbishop of Torino {Turin} Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877) Archbishop of Torino {Turin} Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868) Archbishop of Genova Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina Pope Pius IX (1827) (Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †) Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800) Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773) Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761) Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749) Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743) Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus 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: Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro (2005)

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