Archbishop Egisto Domenico Melchiori †

Deceased

Bishop of Tortona, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Feb 1879		Born
25 Aug 1901	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
11 Apr 1924	45.1	Appointed	Bishop of Nola, Italy
15 Jun 1924	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nola, Italy
5 Dec 1934	55.8	Appointed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
26 Dec 1934	55.8	Installed	Bishop of Tortona, Italy
26 Feb 1949	70.0	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Tortona, Italy
2 Mar 1963	84.0	Died	Bishop of Tortona, Italy

MicroData Summary
Egisto Domenico Melchiori
Archbishop Egisto Domenico Melchiori
(born 15 Feb 1879, died 2 Mar 1963)
Bishop of Tortona

Event Place
Birth Place Bedizzole, Diocese of Brescia
Ordained Bishop Ponte Vico

a priest for 61.5 years
a bishop for 38.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Giacinto Gaggia †
Bishop of Brescia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giovanni Cazzani †
Bishop of Cremona
Bishop Emilio Bongiorni †
Titular Bishop of Sasima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Giacinto Gaggia † (1909)
Bishop of Brescia
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Frascati
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Carlo Ferrari † (1935)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Silvio Cassulo † (1948)
Bishop Raffaele Macario † (1948)
Bishop Carlo Angeleri † (1948)
Bishop Carlo Ferrari † (1952)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Vincenzo Celli † (1927)
Archbishop Domenico Guido Menna † (1929)
Archbishop Francesco Pietro Tesauri † (1933)
Bishop Michele Raffaele Camerlengo, O.F.M. † (1935)
Bishop Felice Bonomini † (1940)
Archbishop Lorenzo Gargiulo † (1947)
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Bosio † (1948)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q3720440

Source(s):

c2: Annuaire Pontifical Catholique, Year 1939
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1924, Number 40

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