Bishop Gaetano Lironi †

Deceased

Bishop of Assisi, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Feb 1817		Born
30 Mar 1839	22.0	Ordained Deacon	Deacon
19 Sep 1840	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 Mar 1883	66.0	Appointed	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
18 Mar 1883	66.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Assisi, Italy
30 May 1889	72.2	Died	Bishop of Assisi, Italy

MicroData Summary
Gaetano Lironi
Bishop Gaetano Lironi
(born 24 Feb 1817, died 30 May 1889)
Bishop of Assisi

Event Place
Birth Place Spoleto
Ordained Bishop S. Augustin, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a priest for 48.6 years
a bishop for 6.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giulio Lenti †
Titular Archbishop of Side
Bishop Francesco Marinelli, O.E.S.A. †
Titular Bishop of Porphyreon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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):

VIAF: 89159975
WikiData: Q64734504

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1885
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 126
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1883, Number 4

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