Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Cannae

Note(s): (Zaire)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Sep 1933		Born
14 Jul 1957	23.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catania, Italy
22 Apr 1979	45.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Cannae
22 Apr 1979	45.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bolivia
27 May 1979	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Cannae
29 Jan 1985	51.4	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Congo, Democratic Republic of
2 Jun 1992	58.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil
12 Oct 2002	69.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
8 Nov 2008	75.1	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal
11 Feb 2026	92.4	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary
Alfio Rapisarda
Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda
(born 3 Sep 1933, died 11 Feb 2026)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Zafferana Etnea, Archdiocese of Catania, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Aci Sant'Antonio, Diocese of Acireale, Italy

a priest for 68.5 years
a bishop for 46.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Guido Luigi Bentivoglio, O. Cist. †
Archbishop of Catania
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, O.F.M. † (1982)
Archbishop Luis Sáinz Hinojosa, O.F.M. † (1982)
Bishop Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey † (1984)
Bishop Gino Malvestio, P.I.M.E. † (1994)
Bishop Giuliano Frigeni, P.I.M.E. (1999)
Bishop Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis † (1999)
Bishop José María Libório Camino Saracho † (1999)
Archbishop Gil Antônio Moreira (1999)
Bishop Carillo Gritti, I.M.C. † (2000)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francisco de Paula Victor † (1996)
Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo (1998)
Bishop Antonino Migliore (2000)
Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawłowski (2009)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q568442

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 8 Nov 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,908
bpd/opd: CB, 18 Sep 2024
d: CB, 11 Feb 2026

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