Bishop Raffaele Piras †

Deceased

Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Oct 1865		Born
6 Dec 1906	41.1	Appointed	Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy
20 Jan 1907	41.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy
23 Aug 1911	45.8	Died	Bishop of Penne e Atri, Italy

MicroData Summary
Raffaele Piras
Bishop Raffaele Piras
(born 24 Oct 1865, died 23 Aug 1911)
Bishop of Penne e Atri

Event Place
Birth Place Quartuccio

a bishop for 4.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pietro Balestra, O.F.M. Conv. †
Archbishop of Cagliari
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Luca Canepa †
Bishop of Galtelli-Nuoro (Galtelly Nori)
Bishop Raimondo Ingheo-Ledda †
Bishop of Iglesias

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pietro Balestra, O.F.M. Conv. † (1895)
Archbishop of Cagliari
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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):

Vatican Library: 495/238428
VIAF: 89642289
WikiData: Q3929140

Source(s):

d: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1912
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 293
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1907, Number 3

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