Pier Francesco Cardinal Meglia †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Nov 1810		Born
24 Sep 1836	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Sep 1864	53.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Damascus
25 Sep 1864	53.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Damascus
1 Oct 1864	53.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to México
21 Oct 1866	55.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria
27 Apr 1874	63.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to France
19 Sep 1879	68.8	Elevated to Cardinal
19 Sep 1879	68.8	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to France
27 Feb 1880	69.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
31 Mar 1883	72.4	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary for Pier Francesco Meglia
(VIAF: 10672982; WikiData: Q1084694)
Pier Francesco Cardinal Meglia (born 3 Nov 1810, died 31 Mar 1883) Apostolic Nuncio

Consistory - September 1879: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Santo Stefano al Mare, Diocese of Ventimiglia, Italy
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Sistine, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Family Tomb, Cemetery, Santo Stefano al Mare, Diocese of Ventimiglia, Italy

a priest for 46.5 years
a bishop for 18.5 years
a cardinal for 3.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Pius IX
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giuseppe Berardi †
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bishop Francesco Marinelli, O.E.S.A. †
Titular Bishop of Porphyreon

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Franz Leopold von Leonrod † (1867)
Bishop Pierre-Marie Le Berre, C.S.Sp. † (1877)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Santo Stefano al Mare, Diocese of Ventimiglia, Italy
Ordained Priest	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Sistine, Chapel, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Family Tomb, Cemetery, Santo Stefano al Mare, Diocese of Ventimiglia, Italy

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 238, and Page 53
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 19 Sep 1879
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1864, Number 28
nunc: Le Nunziature Apostoliche (Marchi), Page 56, and Page 128, and Page 173

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