Angelo Cardinal Comastri

President Emeritus of the Fabric of St. Peter

Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro

Motto: Deus Charitas Est

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Sep 1943		Born
11 Mar 1967	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sovana e Pitigliano, Italy
25 Jul 1990	46.8	Appointed	Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
12 Sep 1990	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
3 Mar 1994	50.4	Resigned	Bishop of Massa Marittima-Piombino, Italy
9 Nov 1996	53.1	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Loreto, Italy
5 Feb 2005	61.3	Appointed	President of the Fabric of St. Peter
5 Feb 2005	61.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}
31 Oct 2006	63.1	Succeeded	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}
24 Nov 2007	64.1	Elevated to Cardinal
24 Nov 2007	64.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Salvatore in Lauro
24 May 2008	64.6	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Salvatore in Lauro
28 Feb 2013	69.4	Ceased	President of the Fabric of St. Peter
16 Mar 2013	69.4	Confirmed	President of the Fabric of St. Peter
19 May 2018	74.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Salvatore in Lauro
20 Feb 2021	77.4	Retired	President of the Fabric of St. Peter
20 Feb 2021	77.4	Retired	Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica}

MicroData Summary
Angelo Comastri
Angelo Cardinal Comastri
(born 17 Sep 1943)
President Emeritus of Fabric of St. Peter

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Sorano, Diocese of Sovana e Pitigliano, Italy
Ordained Priest Church, Sorano, Diocese of Sovana e Pitigliano, Italy
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Lungomare dei Navigatori, Porto Santo Stefano, Archdiocese of Pisa, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Fabric of St. Peter.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Luigi Boccadoro †
Bishop of Acquapendente
Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gaetano Bonicelli
Archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d’Elsa-Montalcino
Bishop Eugenio Binini
Bishop of Pitigliano-Sovana-Orbetello

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Giancarlo Vecerrica (2003)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Sorano, Diocese of Sovana e Pitigliano, Italy
Ordained Priest	Church, Sorano, Diocese of Sovana e Pitigliano, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Lungomare dei Navigatori, Porto Santo Stefano, Archdiocese of Pisa, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/301579
VIAF: 90164990
WikiData: Q521184

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 5 Feb 2005
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 123, Number 11,076
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125, Number 11,288
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
ab: Bollettino, 19 May 2018
r: Bollettino, 20 Feb 2021

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