Bishop Giuseppe La Placa

Bishop of Ragusa, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Nov 1962		Born
29 Jun 1986	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Caltanissetta, Italy
8 May 2021	58.4	Appointed	Bishop of Ragusa, Italy
16 Jul 2021	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ragusa, Italy

MicroData Summary for Giuseppe La Placa
(VIAF: 311275830; WikiData: Q106765236)
Bishop Giuseppe La Placa (born 16 Nov 1962) Bishop of Ragusa

Ad Limina - April 2024 (Italy, Sicilia): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Resuttano, Diocese of Caltanissetta
Ordained Bishop San Giovanni Battista, Cathedral, Ragusa, Diocese of Ragusa

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ragusa.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Alfredo Maria Garsia †
Bishop of Caltanissetta
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Mario Russotto
Bishop of Caltanissetta
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Salvatore Gristina
Archbishop of Catania
Bishop Carmelo Cuttitta
Bishop Emeritus of Ragusa
Archbishop Francesco Lomanto
Archbishop of Siracusa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Mario Russotto (2003)
Bishop of Caltanissetta
Salvatore Cardinal De Giorgi (1973)
Archbishop of Palermo
Bishop Francesco Minerva † (1948)
Bishop of Lecce
Archbishop Ferdinando Bernardi † (1931)
Archbishop of Taranto
Archbishop Lorenzo Angelo Bartolomasi † (1911)
Titular Archbishop of Petra in Palaestina
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Salvatore Rumeo (2023)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Resuttano, Diocese of Caltanissetta
Ordained Bishop	San Giovanni Battista, Cathedral, Ragusa, Diocese of Ragusa

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 8 May 2021
c1: CB, 9 May 2021
ob: CB, 17 May 2021
c2: CB, 9 Jul 2021
c3+: CB, 12 Jul 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Number 20,715

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