Bishop Placido Ferniani †

Deceased

Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Dec 1870		Born
23 Sep 1893	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
7 Apr 1922	51.2	Appointed	Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto, Italy
18 Jun 1922	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto, Italy
22 May 1925	54.4	Died	Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto, Italy

MicroData Summary
Placido Ferniani
Bishop Placido Ferniani
(born 26 Dec 1870, died 22 May 1925)
Bishop of Ruvo e Bitonto

Event Place
Birth Place Fognano di Brisighella

a priest for 31.6 years
a bishop for 2.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Vincenzo Bacchi †
Bishop of Faenza
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giovanni Pranzini †
Titular Bishop of Diocaesarea in Palaestina
Bishop Domenico Pasi †
Bishop of Macerata e Tolentino

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vincenzo Bacchi † (1906)
Bishop of Faenza
Domenico Cardinal Svampa † (1887)
Archbishop of Bologna
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Fernando Cardinal Cento † (1922)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64777336

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1925
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1922, Number 36

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