Bishop Antonio Silvio Zocchetta, O.F.M. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia

Titular Bishop of Sfasferia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Jun 1920		Born
17 Mar 1945	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
16 Feb 1968	47.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mogadiscio, Somalia
16 Feb 1968	47.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sfasferia
23 May 1968	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sfasferia
19 Oct 1970	50.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia
22 Jan 1973	52.6	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio, Somalia

MicroData Summary
Antonio Silvio Zocchetta
Bishop Antonio Silvio Zocchetta O.F.M.
(born 10 Jun 1920, died 22 Jan 1973)
Vicar Apostolic of Mogadiscio

Event Place
Birth Place Montecchio Precalcino, Diocese of Vicenza, Italy
Ordained Priest Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Sant'Angelo, Church, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Death Place Mogadiscio, Vicariate Apostolic of Mogadiscio
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Mogadiscio, Vicariate Apostolic of Mogadiscio
Buried Place (Current) Sant'Antonio di Padova, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy

a priest for 27.8 years
a bishop for 4.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pacifico Maria Luigi Perantoni, O.F.M. †
Archbishop of Lanciano e Ortona
Bishop Tarcisio Vincenzo Benedetti, O.C.D. †
Bishop of Lodi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo † (1960)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Cardinal Montini † (1954)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
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):

WikiData: Q60824885

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 130
loc: AM, 18 Feb 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 3, Number 110

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