Bishop Giuseppe Di Falco

Bishop Emeritus of Sulmona-Valva, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 May 1930		Born
29 Jun 1953	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chieti, Italy
25 May 1985	55.0	Appointed	Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy
14 Jul 1985	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy
31 Aug 1985	55.2	Installed	Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, Italy
3 Apr 2007	76.8	Retired	Bishop of Sulmona-Valva, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giuseppe Di Falco
Bishop Giuseppe Di Falco
(born 13 May 1930)
Bishop Emeritus of Sulmona-Valva

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Casalincontrada, Archdiocese of Chieti
Ordained Priest San Giustino, Cathedral, Chieti, Archdiocese of Chieti
Ordained Bishop San Giustino, Cathedral, Chieti, Archdiocese of Chieti

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Sulmona-Valva.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Vincenzo Fagiolo †
Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti
Archbishop Antonio Valentini †
Archbishop of Chieti

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Priest of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Angelo Spina (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1528287

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 3 Apr 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 94, Number 8,028
loc: AM, 8 Feb 2024

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