Archbishop Mario Rizzi †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria

Titular Archbishop of Balneoregium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Mar 1926		Born
3 Oct 1948	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
28 Feb 1991	64.9	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Balneoregium
28 Feb 1991	64.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria
20 Apr 1991	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Balneoregium
1996	69.8	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria
13 Apr 2012	86.1	Died	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Bulgaria

MicroData Summary for Mario Rizzi
Archbishop Mario Rizzi (born 3 Mar 1926, died 13 Apr 2012) Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus of Bulgaria

Event Place
Birth Place San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy

a priest for 63.5 years
a bishop for 20.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Sodano
Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Metodi Dimitrov Stratiev, A.A. †
Titular Bishop of Diocletianopolis in Thracia
Bishop Benito Cocchi †
Bishop of Parma (-Fontevivo)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Angelo Sodano (1978)
Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126, Number 11,400
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127, Number 11,444, Additions/Corrections (back)
d: CB, 14 Apr 2012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)

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