Archbishop Serafino Sprovieri †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 May 1930		Born
12 Jul 1953	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cosenza, Italy
11 Feb 1978	47.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Catanzaro, Italy
11 Feb 1978	47.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Themisonium
9 Apr 1978	47.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Themisonium
31 Jul 1980	50.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Rossano e Cariati, Italy
25 Nov 1991	61.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
3 May 2006	75.9	Retired	Archbishop of Benevento, Italy
3 Jan 2018	87.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento, Italy

MicroData Summary
Serafino Sprovieri
Archbishop Serafino Sprovieri
(born 18 May 1930, died 3 Jan 2018)
Archbishop Emeritus of Benevento

Event Place
Birth Place San Pietro in Guarano, Archdiocese of Cosenza
Ordained Bishop Seminary, Chapel, Catanzaro, Archdiocese of Catanzaro
Death Place Cosenza, Archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano

a priest for 64.4 years
a bishop for 39.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Aniello Calcara †
Archbishop of Cosenza
Principal Consecrator:
Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio †
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Aurelio Sorrentino †
Archbishop of Reggio Calabria
Archbishop Armando Fares †
Archbishop of Catanzaro

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio † (1953)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop Antonio Ciliberti † (1989)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino, O.S.B. (1998)
Bishop Michele De Rosa (1998)
Bishop Gennaro Pascarella (1999)
Archbishop Salvatore Nunnari (1999)
Archbishop Orazio Soricelli (2000)

Event	Place
Birth Place	San Pietro in Guarano, Archdiocese of Cosenza
Ordained Bishop	Seminary, Chapel, Catanzaro, Archdiocese of Catanzaro
Death Place	Cosenza, Archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano

External Link(s):

VIAF: 89690833
WikiData: Q1520121

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 3 May 2006
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133
d: CB, 3 Jan 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c23: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 56, Number 4,119
bpd/opd/c1: CB, 16 Sep 2024

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