Bishop Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Volterra, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jan 1924		Born
5 Apr 1947	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pisa, Italy
25 May 1985	61.3	Appointed	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
29 Jun 1985	61.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
3 Mar 1994	70.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
18 Sep 1994	70.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
18 Mar 2000	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Volterra, Italy
2 Nov 2013	89.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Volterra, Italy

MicroData Summary
Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli
Bishop Vasco Giuseppe Bertelli
(born 23 Jan 1924, died 2 Nov 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Volterra

Event Place
Birth Place Pontedera, Archdiocese of Pisa
Ordained Bishop S. Rainier, Cathedral, Pisa, Archdiocese of Pisa
Death Place Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Volterra, Diocese of Volterra

a priest for 66.5 years
a bishop for 28.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Gabriele Vettori †
Archbishop of Pisa
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Benvenuto Matteucci †
Archbishop of Pisa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ettore Cunial †
Titular Archbishop of Soteropolis
Archbishop Giuliano Agresti †
Archbishop of Lucca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Benvenuto Matteucci † (1968)
Archbishop of Pisa
Bishop Mario Longo Dorni † (1954)
Bishop of Pistoia
Bishop Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C. † (1945)
Bishop of Novara
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Mario Meini (1996)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Mansueto Bianchi † (2000)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 281775434
WikiData: Q514057

Source(s):

d: CB, 2 Nov 2013
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 100, Number 8,650
bpd/opd/loc/aadm: CB, 3 Sep 2024

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