Bishop Pierfranco Pastore †

Deceased

Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Titular Bishop of Forontoniana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Apr 1927		Born
25 Jun 1950	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Novara, Italy
4 Dec 1984	57.6	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
3 Dec 1994	67.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Forontoniana
6 Jan 1995	67.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Forontoniana
29 Nov 2003	76.6	Retired	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
30 Aug 2015	88.3	Died	Secretary Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications

MicroData Summary for Pierfranco Pastore
(VIAF: 3160165271748610690000; WikiData: Q1726099)
Bishop Pierfranco Pastore (born 21 Apr 1927, died 30 Aug 2015) Secretary Emeritus of Social Communications

Event Place
Birth Place Varallo Sesia, Diocese of Novara, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 65.1 years
a bishop for 20.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Carlo Allorio †
Bishop of Pavia
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Varallo Sesia, Diocese of Novara, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,462
d: CB, 31 Aug 2015
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
opd/c1/ab: CB, 10 Aug 2024

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