Bishop Francesco Sarego, S.V.D.

Bishop Emeritus of Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1939		Born
20 Aug 1986	47.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
6 Dec 1995	56.3	Appointed	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
27 Apr 1996	56.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
9 Jun 2016	76.8	Retired	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary
Francesco Sarego
Bishop Francesco Sarego S.V.D.
(born 1 Aug 1939)
Bishop Emeritus of Goroka

Ad Limina - June 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Cologna Veneta, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Goroka.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Michael Meier, S.V.D. †
Archbishop of Mount Hagen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ramiro Moliner Inglés †
Titular Archbishop of Sarda
Bishop William Joseph Kurtz, S.V.D. †
Bishop of Kundiawa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Michael Meier, S.V.D. † (1984)
Archbishop of Mount Hagen
Archbishop George Elmer Bernarding, S.V.D. † (1960)
Archbishop of Mount Hagen
Bishop John Joseph Wright † (1947)
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Richard James Cushing † (1939)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
William Henry Cardinal O’Connell † (1901)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Dariusz Piotr Kałuża, M.S.F. (2016)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Anton Bal (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1441207

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 145, Number 12,715
r: Bollettino, 9 Jun 2016

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