Bishop Vittorino Girardi, M.C.C.I.

Bishop of Tilarán

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Mar 1938		Born	Lendinaria, Italy
9 Sep 1962	24.5	Professed	Member of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
30 Mar 1963	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus
13 Jul 2002	64.3	Appointed	Bishop of Tilarán, Costa Rica
21 Sep 2002	64.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tilarán, Costa Rica

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Tilarán.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio Sozzo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Román Arrieta Villalobos †
Bishop Héctor Morera Vega

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vittorino Girardi, M.C.C.I. (2002)
Archbishop Antonio Sozzo (1995)
Angelo Cardinal Sodano (1978)
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

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