Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

Titular Archbishop of Sardes

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jan 1862		Born
1885¹	22.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
24 May 1906³	44.3	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Cuba
25 May 1906³	44.3	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico
1 Aug 1906	44.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Sardes
8 Sep 1906	44.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Sardes
21 Oct 1909	47.7	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Venezuela
27 Feb 1911	49.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil
4 Dec 1916	54.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria
12 Apr 1917	55.2	Died	Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Giuseppe Aversa
Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa
(born 21 Jan 1862, died 12 Apr 1917)
Apostolic Nuncio of Bavaria

Event Place
Birth Place Napoli, Archdiocese of Napoli {Naples}, Italy
Ordained Priest Castel Gandolfo
Death Place München, Archdiocese of München und Freising {Munich}

a priest for 32.2 years
a bishop for 10.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Carlo Pietropaoli †
Bishop of Trivento
Bishop Raffaele Virili †
Titular Bishop of Troas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop William Ambrose Jones, O.S.A. † (1907)
Archbishop José Manuel Dámaso Rúiz y Rodríguez † (1907)
Bishop Michel Antoine Marie Vuylsteke, O.P. † (1910)
Bishop Aguedo Felipe Alvarado Liscano † (1910)
Bishop Arturo Celestino Álvarez † (1910)
Bishop Antônio Malan, S.D.B. † (1914)
Bishop Manoel Antônio de Paiva (Payva) † (1915)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 47938163
WikiData: Q1439087

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1906, Number 55
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 59, and Page 80, and Page 262

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