Bishop Armando Franco †

Deceased

Bishop of Oria, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 May 1922		Born
13 Jul 1947	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
25 Oct 1976	54.4	Appointed	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
25 Oct 1976	54.4	Appointed	Bishop of Venosa, Italy
9 Jan 1977	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
12 Sep 1981	59.3	Appointed	Bishop of Oria, Italy
15 Dec 1997	75.6	Died	Bishop of Oria, Italy

MicroData Summary for Armando Franco
(VIAF: 88609594; WikiData: Q5398078)
Bishop Armando Franco (born 6 May 1922, died 15 Dec 1997) Bishop of Oria

Event Place
Birth Place Mesagne
Ordained Bishop San Giovanni Battista, Cathedral, Brindisi, Archdiocese of Brindisi

a priest for 50.4 years
a bishop for 20.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Corrado Cardinal Ursi †
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Settimio Todisco
Archbishop of Brindisi
Archbishop Orazio Semeraro †
Titular Archbishop of Falerii

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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Gianfranco Gallone (1988)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Pichierri † (1991)
Archbishop Domenico Caliandro (1993)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mesagne
Ordained Bishop	San Giovanni Battista, Cathedral, Brindisi, Archdiocese of Brindisi

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 40, Number 2,531

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