Archbishop Ettore Balestrero

Permanent Observer to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva

Titular Archbishop of Victoriana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1966		Born
18 Sep 1993	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Roma {Rome}, Italy
17 Aug 2009	42.6	Appointed	Under Secretary of the Secretariat of State
22 Feb 2013	46.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Colombia
22 Feb 2013	46.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Victoriana
27 Apr 2013	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Victoriana
6 Jul 2018	51.5	Appointed	Administrator to Congo, Democratic Republic of
27 Apr 2019	52.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of
21 Jun 2023	56.5	Appointed	Permanent Observer to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva

MicroData Summary
Ettore Balestrero
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero
(born 21 Dec 1966)
Permanent Observer of United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva

Event Place
Birth Place Genova, Archdiocese of Genova, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Nunciature to United Nations Office and Specialized Agencies in Geneva.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Camillo Cardinal Ruini
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Principal Consecrator:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Marc Armand Cardinal Ouellet, P.S.S.
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Fernando Cardinal Filoni
Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B. (1991)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Joselito Carreño Quiñonez, M.X.Y. (2014)
Bishop Medardo de Jesús Henao del Río, M.X.Y. (2014)
Bishop Carlos Alberto Correa Martínez (2014)
Archbishop Gabriel Ángel Villa Vahos (2014)
Bishop Luis Horacio Gómez González † (2014)
Archbishop Luis Fernando Rodríguez Velásquez (2014)
Bishop Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz † (2014)
Bishop César Alcides Balbín Tamayo (2015)
Bishop José Crispiano Clavijo Méndez (2015)
Bishop Juan Carlos Cárdenas Toro (2015)
Bishop José Luis Henao Cadavid (2015)
Bishop Marco Antonio Merchán Ladino (2016)
Bishop Orlando Olave Villanoba (2017)
Bishop Mario de Jesús Álvarez Gómez (2018)
Bishop José Saúl Grisales Grisales (2018)
Bishop François Abeli Muhoya Mutchapa (2021)
Bishop Richard Kazadi Kamba (2022)
Bishop Sebastien Kenda Ntumba (2022)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Noel Antonio Londoño Buitrago, C.Ss.R. (2013)
Bishop Ariel Lascarro Tapia (2015)
Bishop Óscar Augusto Múnera Ochoa (2015)
Bishop Luis Albeiro Maldonado Monsalve (2015)
Bishop Pedro Manuel Salamanca Mantilla (2015)
Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera (2015)
Bishop Miguel Fernando González Mariño (2016)
Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (2016)
Bishop Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias (2016)
Bishop Jaime Cristóbal Abril González (2016)
Bishop Nelson Jair Cardona Ramírez (2016)
Bishop José Libardo Garcés Monsalve (2016)
Bishop Toussaint Iluku Bolumbu, M.S.C. (2019)
Bishop Charles Ndaka Salabisala (2020)
Bishop Jean-Crispin Kimbeni Ki Kanda (2020)
Bishop Vincent Tshomba Shamba Kotsho (2020)
Bishop Joseph-Bernard Likolo Bokal’Etumba (2021)
Bishop José-Claude Mbimbi Mbamba (2021)
Bishop André Giraud Pindi Mwanza Mayala (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 40610010
WikiData: Q2400453

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2013
ob/c2: MW, 5 Apr 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 214, Number 17,774
ab: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2018
ab: Bollettino, 27 Apr 2019
ab: Bollettino, 21 Jun 2023

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