Archbishop Cosmo Francesco Ruppi †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Lecce, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jun 1932		Born
18 Dec 1954	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Conversano, Italy
13 May 1980	47.9	Appointed	Bishop of Termoli, Italy
13 May 1980	47.9	Appointed	Bishop of Larino, Italy
29 Jun 1980	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Termoli, Italy
30 Sep 1986	54.3	Appointed	Bishop of Termoli-Larino, Italy
7 Dec 1988	56.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Lecce, Italy
29 Jan 1989	56.6	Installed	Archbishop of Lecce, Italy
14 Nov 1992	60.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
23 Apr 1993	60.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, Italy
16 Apr 2009	76.8	Retired	Archbishop of Lecce, Italy
29 May 2011	78.9	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Lecce, Italy

MicroData Summary for Cosmo Francesco Ruppi
(VIAF: 16956628; WikiData: Q1136150)
Archbishop Cosmo Francesco Ruppi (born 6 Jun 1932, died 29 May 2011) Archbishop Emeritus of Lecce

Ad Limina - March 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Alberobello, Diocese of Conversano
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Alberobello, Diocese of Conversano

a priest for 56.4 years
a bishop for 30.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Gregorio Falconieri †
Bishop of Conversano
Principal Consecrator:
Corrado Cardinal Ursi †
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Guglielmo Motolese †
Archbishop of Taranto
Bishop Antonio D’Erchia †
Bishop of Conversano

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Corrado Cardinal Ursi † (1951)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Archbishop Carlo Confalonieri † (1941)
Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Donato Negro (1994)
Marcello Cardinal Semeraro (1998)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Domenico Caliandro (1993)
Bishop Vittorio Fusco † (1995)
Bishop Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm. (1999)
Bishop Vito De Grisantis † (2000)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Alberobello, Diocese of Conversano
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Alberobello, Diocese of Conversano

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2009
d: CB, 29 May 2011
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 66, Number 5,179

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