Archbishop Aldo Giordano †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio to European Union

Titular Archbishop of Tamada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Aug 1954		Born
28 Jul 1979	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cuneo, Italy
7 Jun 2008	53.7	Appointed	Permanent Observer to Council of Europe
26 Oct 2013	59.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Tamada
26 Oct 2013	59.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela
14 Dec 2013	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Tamada
8 May 2021	66.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to European Union
2 Dec 2021	67.2	Died	Apostolic Nuncio to European Union

MicroData Summary for Aldo Giordano
(VIAF: 22196983; WikiData: Q1260657)
Archbishop Aldo Giordano (born 20 Aug 1954, died 2 Dec 2021) Apostolic Nuncio of European Union

Event Place
Birth Place Cuneo, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy
Ordained Bishop Palazzetto dello Sport di San Rocco Castagnaretta, Cuneo, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy
Death Place Louvain, Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
Buried Place (Original) Cemetery, San Benigno, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy

a priest for 42.3 years
a bishop for 7.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Pietro Parolin
Titular Archbishop of Aquipendium
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giuseppe Cavallotto
Bishop of Cuneo
Archbishop Celestino Migliore
Titular Archbishop of Canosa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Pietro Parolin (2009)
Titular Archbishop of Aquipendium
Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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:
Bishop Ernesto José Romero Rivas, O.F.M. Cap. (2015)
Archbishop Francisco Gerardo Escalante Molina (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cuneo, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Palazzetto dello Sport di San Rocco Castagnaretta, Cuneo, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy
Death Place	Louvain, Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
Buried Place (Original)	Cemetery, San Benigno, Diocese of Cuneo, Italy

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 26 Oct 2013
ob: CB, 6 Nov 2013
c2: CB, 8 Nov 2013
c34: CB, 6 Dec 2013
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 2,013, Number 160
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Number 17,993
ab: Bollettino, 8 May 2021
d: CB, 2 Dec 2021
23.loc: AM, 13 Dec 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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