Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, O.F.M.

Secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

Bishop Emeritus of Tortona

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Oct 1965		Born
14 Sep 1991	25.9	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor
4 Jul 1992	26.7	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor
3 Jul 1993	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
15 Oct 2014	49.0	Appointed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
7 Dec 2014	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
14 Dec 2014	49.1	Installed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
27 May 2021	55.6	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
27 May 2021	55.6	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)

MicroData Summary
Vittorio Francesco Viola
Archbishop Vittorio Francesco Viola O.F.M.
(born 4 Oct 1965)
Secretary of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

Event Place
Birth Place Biella, Diocese of Biella, Italy
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria degli Angeli alla Porziuncola, Church, Assisi, Diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luca Brandolini, C.M.
Titular Bishop of Urusi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino
Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Gualtiero Cardinal Bassetti
Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve
Bishop Martino Canessa
Bishop Emeritus of Tortona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino (2001)
Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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:
Bishop Guido Marini (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Biella, Diocese of Biella, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria degli Angeli alla Porziuncola, Church, Assisi, Diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 306399963
WikiData: Q18281599

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2014
ob: CB, 21 Oct 2014
c2+: CB, 3 Nov 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Number 18,324
i/loc: AM, 25 Sep 2018
ab: Bollettino, 27 May 2021

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