Pier Luigi Cardinal Carafa (Sr.) †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Tricarico, Italy

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jul 1581		Born
29 Mar 1624	42.6	Appointed	Bishop of Tricarico, Italy
Apr 1624	42.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
2 Jun 1624	42.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tricarico, Italy
15 Jun 1624	42.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany
20 Sep 1634	53.1	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany
6 Mar 1645	63.6	Elevated to Cardinal
10 Jul 1645	63.9	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
8 Jan 1646⁶	64.4	Resigned	Bishop of Tricarico, Italy
15 Feb 1655	73.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Tricarico, Italy

Note(s): ⁶ Before

MicroData Summary
Pier Luigi Carafa (Sr.)
Pier Luigi Cardinal Carafa (Sr.)
(born 18 Jul 1581, died 15 Feb 1655)
Bishop Emeritus of Tricarico

Consistory - March 1645: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1655: Participated

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

a priest for 30.8 years
a bishop for 30.7 years
a cardinal for 9.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres †
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Antonio Angrisani, C.R. †
Archbishop of Sorrento
Bishop Alessandro (Fabrizio) Suardi †
Bishop of Lucera

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Ordained Priest:
Federico Cardinal Sforza † (1646)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas de Grace † (1629)
Bishop Andrés Aguado de Valdés, O.S.A. † (1642)
Bishop Pomponio Spreti † (1646)
Bishop Pier Luigi Carafa, C.R. † (1646)
Bishop Donato Pascasio, O.S.B. † (1646)
Bishop Louis de Fortia-Montréal † (1646)
Bishop Martino Megali † (1646)
Archbishop Giacomo Carafa † (1646)
Bishop Francesco Antonio Depace † (1646)
Federico Cardinal Sforza † (1646)
Archbishop Raphael Levacovich, O.F.M. Obs. † (1647)
Bishop Simeone de Summis, O.F.M. † (1647)
Bishop Tommaso Imperato † (1647)
Bishop Giovanni Ambrogio Bicuti † (1647)
Bishop Alessandro Masi † (1647)
Archbishop Gregorio Carafa, C.R. † (1648)
Bishop Tommaso d’Aquino, C.R. † (1648)
Bishop Luigi Branciforte † (1648)
Archbishop Paolo Teutonico † (1649)
Bishop Gian Giacomo Cristoforo † (1649)
Archbishop Giuseppe (Francisco Maria) Sanfelice † (1650)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop Domenico Ravenna † (1635)
Bishop Luigi Pappacoda † (1635)

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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/540
VIAF: 2616320
WikiData: Q1379393

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 6 Mar 1645
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 343
ob/c2+: Sacres Episcopaux a Rome de 1565 a 1662, Page 85, Number 504
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1624, Number 27
nunc: Les Nonciatures Apostoliques Permanentes (Biaudet), Page 259

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