Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli

Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Titular Archbishop of Minturnae

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1937		Born
27 May 1961	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cremona, Italy
24 May 2008	71.3	Appointed	Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
24 May 2008	71.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Minturnae
3 Jul 2008	71.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Minturnae
26 Jun 2012	75.3	Retired	Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

MicroData Summary
Piergiuseppe Vacchelli
Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli
(born 4 Feb 1937)
Secretary Emeritus of Evangelization of Peoples

Event Place
Birth Place Longardore di Sospiro
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Cremona, Diocese of Cremona, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Danio Bolognini †
Bishop of Cremona
Principal Consecrator:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Ivan Cornelius Cardinal Dias †
Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella
Jean-Louis Pierre Cardinal Tauran †
Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B. (1991)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q369464

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 May 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Number 15,775
r: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2012

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