Bishop Raffaele Purpo †

Deceased

Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Dec 1789		Born
18 Dec 1813	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sorrento, Italy
13 Mar 1843	53.2	Selected	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
3 Apr 1843	53.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
7 May 1843	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy
23 Dec 1876	86.9	Died	Bishop of Pozzuoli, Italy

MicroData Summary
Raffaele Purpo
Bishop Raffaele Purpo
(born 24 Dec 1789, died 23 Dec 1876)
Bishop of Pozzuoli

Event Place
Birth Place Sorrento
Ordained Bishop Santi XII Apostoli, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a priest for 63.0 years
a bishop for 33.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Antonio Francesco Cardinal Orioli, O.F.M. Conv. †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Fabio Maria Asquini †
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Bishop Francesco-Paolo Mastropasqua †
Bishop of Nusco

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Antonio Francesco Cardinal Orioli, O.F.M. Conv. † (1833)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Giacinto Placido Cardinal Zurla, O.S.B. † (1824)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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):

WikiData: Q3929145

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1872
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 315
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1843, Number 20
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 3, Number 88

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