Archbishop Francesco De Nittis †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Tunes

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jul 1933		Born
15 Jul 1956	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
7 Mar 1981	47.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Tunes
7 Mar 1981	47.6	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Papua New Guinea
7 Mar 1981	47.6	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Solomon Islands
2 May 1981	47.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Tunes
24 Jan 1985	51.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to El Salvador
10 Apr 1986	52.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Honduras
25 Jun 1990	56.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay
Aug 1999³	66.0	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay
10 Mar 2014	80.6	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Francesco De Nittis
Archbishop Francesco De Nittis
(born 3 Jul 1933, died 10 Mar 2014)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Vieste, Archdiocese of Manfredonia (e Vieste), Italy
Ordained Bishop Assomption, Cathedral, Vieste, Archdiocese of Manfredonia (e Vieste), Italy

a priest for 57.6 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Valentino Vailati †
Archbishop of Manfredonia (e Vieste)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Roberto Joaquín Ramos Umaña † (1987)
Bishop Romeo Tovar Astorga, O.F.M. (1987)
Bishop Virgilio López Irias, O.F.M. † (1987)
Bishop Eduardo Alas Alfaro † (1988)
Bishop José Adolfo Mojica Morales † (1990)
Archbishop Nicolás Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B. (1996)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hermann Raich, S.V.D. † (1982)
Archbishop William Joseph Kurtz, S.V.D. † (1982)
Archbishop Adrian Thomas Smith, S.M. (1983)
Archbishop Michael Meier, S.V.D. † (1984)
Bishop José Carmen Di Pietro Pésolo, S.D.B. † (1986)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1441009

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 10 Mar 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 68, Number 5,378

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