Bishop Gennaro Fortunato †

Deceased

Bishop of Lavello, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Sep 1733		Born
14 Apr 1759	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 Feb 1792	58.4	Selected	Bishop of Lavello, Italy
26 Mar 1792	58.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Lavello, Italy
9 Apr 1792	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lavello, Italy
26 Dec 1799	66.2	Died	Bishop of Lavello, Italy

MicroData Summary
Gennaro Fortunato
Bishop Gennaro Fortunato
(born 13 Sep 1733, died 26 Dec 1799)
Bishop of Lavello

Event Place
Birth Place Rionero

a priest for 40.6 years
a bishop for 7.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antonio Felice Zondadari †
Titular Archbishop of Adana
Archbishop Nicola Buschi †
Titular Archbishop of Ephesus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francesco Saverio Cardinal de Zelada † (1766)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64786488

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 256
c34: CB, 22 Jul 2014
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1792, Number 49

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