Michelangelo (Pietro Geremia) Cardinal Celesia, O.S.B. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

Cardinal-Priest of San Marco

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jan 1814		Born
15 Jan 1835	21.0	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
24 Jul 1836	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
25 Mar 1850	36.1	Appointed	Abbot of Montecassino, Italy
13 Mar 1860	46.1	Selected	Bishop of Patti, Italy
23 Mar 1860	46.1	Confirmed	Bishop of Patti, Italy
15 Apr 1860	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Patti, Italy
27 Oct 1871	57.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy
10 Nov 1884	70.8	Elevated to Cardinal
13 Nov 1884	70.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca
25 Nov 1887	73.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Marco
14 Apr 1904	90.2	Died	Archbishop of Palermo, Italy

MicroData Summary for Michelangelo (Pietro Geremia) Celesia
(VIAF: 77578510; WikiData: Q387715)
Michelangelo (Pietro Geremia) Cardinal Celesia O.S.B. (born 13 Jan 1814, died 14 Apr 1904) Archbishop of Palermo

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - November 1884: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1903: Unable to Participate

Event Place
Birth Place Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Ordained Bishop San Paolo fuori le Mura, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}
Death Place Archiepiscopal Palace, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Buried Place (Original) Capuchin Friars, Church, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Buried Place (Current) Cathedral, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo

a priest for 67.7 years
a bishop for 43.9 years
a cardinal for 19.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Domenico Benedetto Balsamo, O.S.B. †
Archbishop of Monreale
Principal Consecrator:
Girolamo Cardinal d’Andrea †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Patriarch Melchiade Ferlisi †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople
Archbishop Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst †
Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Girolamo Cardinal d’Andrea † (1841)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Luigi Emmanuele Nicolo Cardinal Lambruschini, B. † (1819)
Secretary of State
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Domenico Turano † (1872)
Giuseppe Cardinal Guarino † (1872)
Archbishop Benedetto Lavecchia Guarnieri, O.F.M. Obs. † (1872)
Bishop Antonino Morana † (1872)
Bishop Giuseppe Maria Maragioglio, O.F.M. Cap. † (1875)
Bishop Giuseppe Masi † (1878)
Bishop Francesco Ragusa † (1879)
Bishop Bernardo Cozzucli (Cozzuoli) † (1881)
Archbishop Gaetano d’Alessandro † (1884)
Bishop Giacomo Daddi † (1884)
Bishop Ignazio Zuccaro † (1896)
Bishop Gaspare Bova † (1896)
Archbishop Vincenzo Di Giovanni † (1897)
Bishop Damaso Pio de Bono † (1898)
Bishop Bartolomeo Maria Lagumina † (1898)
Bishop Nicola Maria Audino † (1898)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Antoni Junosza Gałecki † (1862)
Archbishop Joachim-Hyacinthe Gonin, O.P. † (1863)
Bishop Michael Adrian Hankinson, O.S.B. † (1863)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Ordained Bishop	San Paolo fuori le Mura, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}
Death Place	Archiepiscopal Palace, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Buried Place (Original)	Capuchin Friars, Church, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo
Buried Place (Current)	Cathedral, Palermo, Archdiocese of Palermo

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 434, and Page 438
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 50, and Page 52
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 10 Nov 1884
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1860, Number 10

About Catholic-Hierarchy

Terminology/Site Help

✠