Bishop Giovanni Bianchi †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Pescia, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Apr 1918		Born
6 Jul 1941	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
22 Jun 1964	46.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Firenze {Florence}, Italy
22 Jun 1964	46.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Seleuciana
8 Sep 1964	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Seleuciana
27 Jun 1977	59.2	Appointed	Bishop of Pescia, Italy
18 Dec 1993	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Pescia, Italy
21 Sep 2003	85.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Pescia, Italy

MicroData Summary for Giovanni Bianchi
(VIAF: 307331306; WikiData: Q11860490)
Bishop Giovanni Bianchi (born 8 Apr 1918, died 21 Sep 2003) Bishop Emeritus of Pescia

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

Event Place
Birth Place Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Ordained Priest Santa Maria, Cathedral, Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria, Cathedral, Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Death Place Collevalenza

a priest for 62.2 years
a bishop for 39.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Elia Cardinal Dalla Costa †
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ermenegildo Florit †
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Antonio Bagnoli †
Bishop of Fiesole
Bishop Enrico Bartoletti †
Titular Bishop of Myndus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ermenegildo Florit † (1954)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
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:
Bishop Girolamo Maria Casalini, O.S.M. † (1966)
Bishop Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, O.F.M. Cap. † (1976)
Silvano Cardinal Piovanelli † (1982)
Gualtiero Cardinal Bassetti (1994)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Ordained Priest	Santa Maria, Cathedral, Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria, Cathedral, Firenze, Archdiocese of Firenze {Florence}
Death Place	Collevalenza

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 95, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 95
c1: CB, 2 Sep 2022

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