Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Atella

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Jun 1948		Born
30 Jun 1973	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bergamo, Italy
19 Jun 1999	51.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Atella
19 Jun 1999	51.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
26 Aug 1999	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Atella
30 Mar 2004	55.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba
14 Mar 2009	60.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania
14 Mar 2009	60.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Estonia
25 Mar 2009	60.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Latvia
18 Dec 2013	65.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Canada
10 Dec 2020	72.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
21 Jan 2025	76.5	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania

MicroData Summary
Luigi Bonazzi
Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi
(born 19 Jun 1948)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Gazzaniga, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Clemente Gaddi †
Bishop of Bergamo
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Roberto Amadei †
Bishop of Bergamo
Bishop Lino Bortolo Belotti, C.M.P. †
Titular Bishop of Tabla

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Zbigņev Stankevičs (2010)
Archbishop Kęstutis Kėvalas (2012)
Bishop Bartholomeus van Roijen (2019)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gazzaniga, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 310703277
WikiData: Q1876109

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 14 Mar 2009
ab: Bollettino, 25 Mar 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 156, Number 13,600
ab: Bollettino, 18 Dec 2013
ab: Bollettino, 10 Dec 2020
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 21 Jan 2025

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