Bishop Pietro Santoro

Bishop Emeritus of Avezzano, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1946		Born
17 May 1970	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chieti, Italy
28 Jun 2007	61.3	Appointed	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
6 Sep 2007	61.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
15 Sep 2007	61.6	Installed	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy
23 Jul 2021	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Avezzano, Italy

MicroData Summary
Pietro Santoro
Bishop Pietro Santoro
(born 4 Feb 1946)
Bishop Emeritus of Avezzano

Ad Limina - January 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Vasto, Archdiocese of Chieti
Ordained Priest Piazza San Pietro, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria Maggiore, Church, Vasto, Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Avezzano.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bruno Forte
Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm.
Bishop of San Severo
Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli †
Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bruno Forte (2004)
Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger † (1977)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Emidio Cipollone (2010)
Bishop Giovanni Massaro (2021)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1724175

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 28 Jun 2007
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 190, Number 15,502
r: Bollettino, 23 Jul 2021

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