Archbishop Franco Coppola

Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium

Titular Archbishop of Vinda

Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 Mar 1957		Born
12 Sep 1981	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Otranto, Italy
16 Jul 2009	52.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Vinda
16 Jul 2009	52.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Burundi
12 Sep 2009	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Vinda
31 Jan 2014	56.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Central African Republic
2 Apr 2014	57.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chad
9 Jul 2016	59.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to México
15 Nov 2021	64.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
14 Dec 2021	64.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg

MicroData Summary
Franco Coppola
Archbishop Franco Coppola
(born 31 Mar 1957)
Apostolic Nuncio of Belgium

Event Place
Birth Place Maglie, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Nunciature to Belgium.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Benedict XVI
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
William Joseph Cardinal Levada †
Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
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 Juan Manuel González Sandoval, M.N.M. (2017)
Bishop Julio César Salcedo Aquino, M.J. (2017)
Bishop Luis Martín Barraza Beltrán, Ist. del Prado (2017)
Bishop Guadalupe Antonio Ruíz Urquín (2020)
Bishop Francisco Figueroa Cervantes (2021)
Bishop José Luis Canto Sosa (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Heriberto Cavazos Pérez (2017)
Bishop Oscar Efraín Tamez Villarreal (2017)
Bishop Pedro Sergio de Jesús Mena Díaz (2017)
Bishop Salvador González Morales (2019)
Bishop Carlos Enrique Samaniego López (2019)
Bishop Joel Ocampo Gorostieta (2019)
Bishop Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, M.Sp.S. † (2020)
Bishop Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal (2020)
Bishop Luis Manuel Pérez Raygoza (2020)
Bishop Roberto Yenny García (2020)
Bishop Luis Manuel López Alfaro (2020)
Bishop César Garza Miranda, O.F.M. (2020)
Bishop Juan Carlos Arcq Guzmán (2020)
Bishop José Manuel Garza Madero (2020)
Bishop Mauricio Urrea Carrillo (2021)
Bishop Roberto Madrigal Gallegos (2021)
Bishop Miguel Ángel Castro Muñoz (2021)
Bishop Andrés Luis García Jasso (2021)
Bishop Ramón Salazar Estrada (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Maglie, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/281477
WikiData: Q553585

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Jul 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 199, Number 16,274
ab: Bollettino, 31 Jan 2014
ab: Bollettino, 2 Apr 2014
ab: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2016
ab: Bollettino, 15 Nov 2021
ab: Bollettino, 14 Dec 2021

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