Bishop Elzear Torreggiani, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Bishop of Armidale

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 May 1830		Born	Porto di Recanati, Italy
23 May 1853	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
4 Feb 1879	48.7	Appointed	Bishop of Armidale, Australia
25 Mar 1879	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Armidale, Australia
28 Jan 1904	73.7	Died	Bishop of Armidale, Australia

a priest for 50.7 years
a bishop for 24.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Antonio Benedetto Cardinal Antonucci †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop James Danell †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Weathers †
Bishop John Cuthbert Hedley, O.S.B. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Elzear Torreggiani, O.F.M. Cap. † (1879)
Bishop James Danell † (1871)
Henry Edward Cardinal Manning † (1865)
Archbishop William Bernard Ullathorne, O.S.B. † (1846)
Bishop John Briggs † (1833)
Bishop Thomas Penswick † (1824)
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Bishop William Gibson † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alphonse-Hilarion Fraysse, S.M. †
Bishop Joseph Patrick Byrne †
Bishop Jeremiah Joseph Doyle †

Source(s):

op/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 124

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