Archbishop Piero Biggio †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Otriculum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jun 1937		Born
5 Aug 1962	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Iglesias, Italy
10 Dec 1988	51.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Otriculum
10 Dec 1988	51.4	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Bangladesh
25 Feb 1989	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Otriculum
23 Apr 1992	54.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile
27 Feb 1999	61.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Denmark
27 Feb 1999	61.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Iceland
27 Feb 1999	61.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Finland
27 Feb 1999	61.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Norway
27 Feb 1999	61.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
16 Oct 2004	67.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Denmark
16 Oct 2004	67.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Iceland
16 Oct 2004	67.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Finland
16 Oct 2004	67.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Norway
16 Oct 2004	67.2	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Sweden
18 Apr 2007	69.8	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary for Piero Biggio
(VIAF: 268145858087823022223; WikiData: Q1349570)
Archbishop Piero Biggio (born 29 Jun 1937, died 18 Apr 2007) Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Calasetta, Diocese of Iglesias, Italy
Ordained Bishop S. Maurizio, Church, Calasetta, Diocese of Iglesias, Italy

a priest for 44.7 years
a bishop for 18.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giovanni Cogoni †
Bishop of Iglesias
Bishop Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, S.J. †
Bishop of Hwalien

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar, SS.CC. (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Patrick Cardinal D’Rozario, C.S.C. (1990)
Bishop Józef Wróbel, S.C.I. (2001)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115, Number 10,244
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
opd: CB, 9 Apr 2017

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