Archbishop Antonio Arcari †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Caeciri

Motto: Dominus Fortitudo Mea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 May 1953		Born
11 Jun 1977	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brescia, Italy
18 Jul 2003	50.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Caeciri
18 Jul 2003	50.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras
20 Sep 2003	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caeciri
12 Dec 2008	55.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Mozambique
5 Jul 2014	61.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica
25 May 2019	66.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
16 May 2023	70.0	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Monaco
1 May 2026	72.9	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary
Antonio Arcari
Archbishop Antonio Arcari
(born 8 May 1953, died 1 May 2026)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Pralboino
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria Assunta, Cathedral, Brescia, Diocese of Brescia, Italy
Death Place Elisa Baldo, Nursing Home, Gavardo, Diocese of Brescia, Italy

a priest for 48.8 years
a bishop for 22.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luigi Morstabilini †
Bishop of Brescia
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giulio Sanguineti †
Bishop of Brescia
Archbishop Bruno Foresti †
Bishop Emeritus of Brescia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F. (2005)
Bishop Elio Giovanni Greselin, S.C.I. (2009)
Bishop Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora (2016)
Bishop Daniel Francisco Blanco Méndez (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pralboino
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria Assunta, Cathedral, Brescia, Diocese of Brescia, Italy
Death Place	Elisa Baldo, Nursing Home, Gavardo, Diocese of Brescia, Italy

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q553594

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 12 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Number 14,464
ab: Bollettino, 5 Jul 2014
ab: Bollettino, 25 May 2019
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 16 May 2023
d: CB, 1 May 2026

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