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Bishop Giovanni Mele †

Deceased

Bishop of Lungro degli Italo-Albanesi (Italo-Albanese)

Events

a priest for 70.7 years a bishop for 59.7 years

Principal Consecrator: Bishop Isaias Papadopoulos † Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Paolo Schirò † Titular Bishop of Benda Assisted by: Abbot Arsenio Pellegrini, O.S.B.I. † Abbot of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata (Italo-Albanese)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Isaias Papadopoulos † (1912) Titular Bishop of Gratianopolis Archbishop Michele Miroff (Mirov) † (1907) Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis Bishop Michel Petkoff † (1883) Titular Bishop of Hebron Archbishop Nilo Isvoroff † Bishop

Principal Consecrator of: Bishop Giuseppe Perniciaro † (1938) Bishop Vasile Cristea, A.A. † (1960) Bishop Giovanni Stamati † (1967) Principal Co-Consecrator of: Archbishop Constantine Bohacevskyj † (1924) Bishop Basil Takacs (Takach) † (1924) Bishop Kyril Stefan (Nikola) Kurteff † (1926) Bishop Bl. Mykola (Nicola) Czarneckyj (Charnetsky), C.SS.R. † (1931) Archbishop Alexandre Evreinoff † (1936) Gabriel Acacius Cardinal Coussa, B.A. † (1961)