Fortunato Cardinal Frezza

Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata

Motto: Loquendo Scripturas Aperiens

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Feb 1942		Born
28 Jun 1966	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
27 Mar 1986	44.1	Incardinated	Priest of Viterbo, Acquapendente, Bagnoregio, Montefiascone, Tuscania e San Martino al Monte Cimino, Italy
23 Jun 1997	55.3	Appointed	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
6 Feb 2014	72.0	Ceased	Under Secretary of the Synod of Bishops
7 Jun 2022	80.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Treba
23 Jul 2022	80.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Treba
27 Aug 2022	80.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata
27 Aug 2022	80.5	Elevated to Cardinal
8 Dec 2022	80.8	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata

MicroData Summary
Fortunato Frezza
Fortunato Cardinal Frezza
(born 6 Feb 1942)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata

Consistory - 2022: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Montecalvello, Diocese of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
Ordained Priest Sipicciano, Diocese of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Cardinal Titular Church of Santa Maria in Via Lata.

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a bishop for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luigi Rosa †
Bishop of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea)
Principal Consecrator:
Mauro Maria Cardinal Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv.
Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra
Titular Archbishop of Thelepte
Bishop Jesús Esteban Catalá Ibáñez
Bishop of Málaga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Mauro Maria Cardinal Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv. (2020)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
Agostino Cardinal Vallini (1989)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pier Damiani ai Monti di San Paolo
Michele Cardinal Giordano † (1972)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Archbishop Giacomo Palombella † (1946)
Archbishop of Matera
Archbishop Marcello Mimmi † (1930)
Archbishop of Bari (-Canosa)
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano † (1907)
Archbishop of Bologna
Vincenzo Cardinal Vannutelli † (1880)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
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:
Bishop Bruno Varriano, O.F.M. (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Montecalvello, Diocese of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
Ordained Priest	Sipicciano, Diocese of Bagnoregio (Bagnorea), Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 160038449
WikiData: Q112162800

Source(s):

card: Bollettino, 29 May 2022
ceas: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 104, Page 76
c1: CB, 29 May 2022
ab/ob/c2+: CB, 8 Jul 2022
ab: CB, 3 Aug 2022
ab: Bollettino, 27 Aug 2022
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 253, Number 20,976
i: Bollettino, 28 Nov 2022

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