Raffaele Cardinal Fornari †

Deceased

Prefect of the Congregation for Studies

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jan 1787		Born
4 Dec 1838	51.8	Appointed	Apostolic Internuncio to Belgium
24 Jan 1842	55.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
25 Jan 1842	55.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
3 Apr 1842	55.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
12 Dec 1842	55.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to France
21 Dec 1846	59.9	Elevated to Cardinal	In Pectore
30 Sep 1850	63.6	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Sep 1850	63.6	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to France
10 Apr 1851	64.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
7 Jun 1851	64.3	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Studies
15 Jun 1854	67.3	Died	Prefect of the Congregation for Studies

MicroData Summary for Raffaele Fornari
(VIAF: 196413203; WikiData: Q1079479)
Raffaele Cardinal Fornari (born 23 Jan 1787, died 15 Jun 1854) Prefect of Studies

Consistory - December 1846: Created Cardinal (In Pectore)
Consistory - 1850: Published (Previously a Cardinal In Pectore)

Event Place
Birth Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop St. Rombaud, Cathedral, Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) S. Maria sopra Minerva, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a bishop for 12.1 years
a cardinal for 7.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Engelbert Cardinal Sterckx †
Archbishop of Mechelen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Cornelius Richard Antoon van Bommel †
Bishop of Liège
Bishop François-René Boussen †
Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Engelbert Cardinal Sterckx † (1832)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Bishop Jean-Joseph Delplancq † (1829)
Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}
Bishop Nicolas-Alexis Ondernard † (1828)
Bishop of Namur {Namen}
Bishop Josef Ludwig Alois von Hommer † (1824)
Bishop of Trier
Bishop Kaspar Max Droste zu Vischering † (1795)
Titular Bishop of Ierichus
Archbishop Max Franz (Maximilian Franciscus) von Habsburg-Lothringen (Österreich) † (1785)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Klemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen † (1766)
Archbishop of Trier
Bishop Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt † (1741)
Bishop of Augsburg
Bishop Johann Jakob von Mayer † (1719)
Titular Bishop of Pergamum
Bishop Alexander Sigmund von Pfalz-Neuburg † (1691)
Bishop of Augsburg
Bishop Marquard Rudolf von Rodt † (1690)
Bishop of Konstanz {Constance}
Bishop Johannes Wolfgang von Bodman †
Titular Bishop of Dardanus

Event	Place
Birth Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	St. Rombaud, Cathedral, Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	S. Maria sopra Minerva, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 50
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 282
c2+: Google Books
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1842, Number 16
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 61, and Page 127

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