Archbishop Raffaele Forni †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Aegina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 May 1906		Born
29 Jul 1934	28.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lugano, Switzerland
31 Jul 1953	47.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Aegina
31 Jul 1953	47.1	Appointed	Apostolic Internuncio to Iran
13 Sep 1953	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Aegina
24 Sep 1955	49.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Venezuela
27 Feb 1960	53.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Uruguay
23 Oct 1965	59.4	Appointed	Official of the Secretariat of State
17 Jun 1967	61.0	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Syria
19 Sep 1969	63.3	Retired	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Syria
29 Sep 1990	84.3	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary
Raffaele Forni
Archbishop Raffaele Forni
(born 24 May 1906, died 29 Sep 1990)
Apostolic Nuncio

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Villa Bedretto, Diocese of Lugano, Switzerland
Ordained Bishop San Anselmo, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 56.1 years
a bishop for 37.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antonio Samorè †
Titular Archbishop of Ternobus
Bishop Angelo Giuseppe Jelmini †
Titular Bishop of Thermae Basilicae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Miguel Saturnino Aurrecoechea Palacios, O.F.M. Cap. † (1956)
Bishop Argimiro Alvaro García Rodríguez, O.F.M. Cap. † (1956)
Bishop Ramón J. Lizardi † (1956)
José Alí Cardinal Lebrún Moratinos † (1956)
Bishop Joannes Maria Michael Holterman, O.P. † (1957)
Archbishop Domingo Roa Pérez † (1957)
Bishop Antonio José Ramírez Salaverría † (1958)
Archbishop José Rafael Pulido Méndez † (1958)
Bishop Orestes Santiago Nuti Sanguinetti, S.D.B. † (1960)
Bishop Umberto Tonna Zanotta † (1960)
Archbishop Carlos Parteli Keller † (1960)
Bishop Enrico Lorenzo Cabrera Urdangarin † (1961)
Bishop Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González † (1962)
Archbishop Ildefonso Maria Sansierra Robla, O.F.M. Cap. † (1962)
Bishop Edmondo Quaglia Martínez † (1964)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/161572
VIAF: 88630469
WikiData: Q776893

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 153, and Page 265
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Number 246, Ascendance
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1953, Number 77

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