Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari

Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Jan 1938		Born
29 Jun 1962	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of L’Aquila, Italy
30 Sep 1989	51.7	Appointed	Bishop of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy
8 Dec 1989	51.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy
6 Jan 1990	51.9	Installed	Bishop of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore), Italy
16 Mar 1996	58.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy
6 Jun 1998	60.4	Succeeded	Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy
8 Jun 2013	75.4	Retired	Archbishop of L’Aquila, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giuseppe Molinari
Archbishop Giuseppe Molinari
(born 11 Jan 1938)
Archbishop Emeritus of L’Aquila

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2013: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Scoppito, Archdiocese of L’Aquila
Ordained Priest San Giacomo Apostolo, Church, Scoppito, Archdiocese of L’Aquila
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, L’Aquila, Archdiocese of L’Aquila

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of L’Aquila.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Costantino Stella †
Archbishop of L’Aquila
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Peressin †
Archbishop of L’Aquila
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francesco Amadio †
Bishop Emeritus of Rieti (-S. Salvatore Maggiore)
Archbishop Cleto Bellucci †
Archbishop of Fermo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Peressin † (1983)
Archbishop of L’Aquila
Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio † (1953)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri e Segni
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Orlando Antonini (1999)
Bishop Mario Toso, S.D.B. (2009)
Bishop Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte, Comm. l'Emm. (2009)
Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P. (2009)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/218948
VIAF: 74159835
WikiData: Q432420

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 119, Number 10,673
r: Bollettino, 8 Jun 2013
i/loc: AM, 25 May 2020

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