Bishop George (Giorgio) Biguzzi, S.X. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Makeni, Sierra Leone

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1936		Born
29 Sep 1956	20.6	Entered	Member of Xaverian Missionary Fathers
19 Oct 1957	21.7	First Vows	Member of Xaverian Missionary Fathers
16 Oct 1960	24.6	Final Vows	Member of Xaverian Missionary Fathers
16 Oct 1960	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Xaverian Missionary Fathers
17 Nov 1986	50.7	Appointed	Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone
6 Jan 1987	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone
7 Jan 2012	75.9	Retired	Bishop of Makeni, Sierra Leone
1 Jul 2024	88.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Makeni, Sierra Leone

MicroData Summary for George (Giorgio) Biguzzi
(WikiData: Q973288)
Bishop George (Giorgio) Biguzzi S.X. (born 4 Feb 1936, died 1 Jul 2024) Bishop Emeritus of Makeni

Ad Limina - April 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Calisese di Cesena, Diocese of Cesena, Italy
Ordained Priest Parma, Diocese of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Parma, Diocese of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy

a priest for 63.7 years
a bishop for 37.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Gaetano Pollio, P.I.M.E. †
Archbishop of Otranto
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop José Tomás Sánchez †
Archbishop Emeritus of Nueva Segovia

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Bob John Hassan Koroma (1999)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma † (2002)
Bishop Robert Patrick Ellison, C.S.Sp. † (2006)
Archbishop Edward Tamba Charles (2008)
Bishop Natale Paganelli, S.X. (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Calisese di Cesena, Diocese of Cesena, Italy
Ordained Priest	Parma, Diocese of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Parma, Diocese of Parma (-Fontevivo), Italy

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 7 Jan 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Number 8,768
loc/c1: AM, 24 May 2023
d: CB, 1 Jul 2024
qsx0: CB, 2 Jul 2024

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