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SONS OF DON BOSCO SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTLES SALESIAN BISHOPS 1884 to 2001 by Charles N. Bransom, Jr. INTRODUCTION he study of apostolic succession and episcopal lineages has long fascinated students of church history. It was not until the middle T of the twentieth century, however, that a systematic attempt was made to trace and catalogue the consecrations of bishops on a world-wide basis. A small group of researchers has catalogued the consecrations of tens of thou­ sands of bishops dating back many centuries. The fruits of their labors--labors that are on going-have resulted in a database, which can trace the episcopal lineage of any living bishop and the vast majority of deceased bishops. In 1984, I began a project on the episcopal ordinations of bishops of re­ ligious orders and congregations. One fruit of that work was a study of the ordi­ nations of Salesian bishops, Les Eveques Salesiens. The present work updates, corrects and expands the 1984 study. In 1984, the episcopal ordinations of 130 bishops were presented. This study contains the details of 196 bishops. The text has been expanded to include the episcopal lineages of the bishops. Of the 196 bishops in this study, 183 trace their orders to Scipione Re­ biba, who was appointed Auxiliary Bishop ofChieti in 1541. The Rebiban suc­ cession is the major episcopal line in the contemporary Catholic episcopate. More than 91 % of the more than 4,500 bishops alive today trace their orders 54 Journal of Salesian Studies back to Rebiba Why so many bishops should trace their lineages to this one bishop can be explained, in great part, by the intense sacramental activity of Pope Benedict XIII, who consecrated 139 bishops during his pontificate, many of them cardinals, nuncios and bishops of important sees who in tum conse­ crated many other bishops. And it is the consecrator of Benedict XIII who gives us the direct link to Scipione Rebiba Pope Benedict XIII's consecrator was Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri. Until 1965, the episcopal genealogies prepared for most bishops showed Pope Alex­ ander VIl as the consecrator of Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, and those genealogies had a lineage reaching back to the early 1400s. In the mid 1960s, a contempo­ rary account of Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri's consecration, published in the Gazette de France, was found. This account revealed that Pope Alexander VIl became ill shortly before the ceremony and was replaced as consecrator by Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna. This change in consecrators fundamentally changes the pre­ viously published genealogies and results in lineages, which end in the year 1541. As for Scipione Rebiba, it is widely believed that Gian Pietro Cardinal Carafa, who became Pope Paul IV, consecrated him but no documentation of any kind has been found and therefore we must stop at Rebiba The remaining thirteen bishops belong to five Latin-rite lines and one Eastern-rite line. The other lines are the Bovet line, ending in 1789 (one bishop); the Gesualdo line, 1564 (one bishop); the von Bodman line, 1686 (two bishops); the Ravizza line, 1667 (two bishops); the Uchanski line, 1552 (five bishops); and the Ukrainian line, which ends in 1565 with Jeremias II, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople (two bishops). In this work, these lines are abbrevi­ ated at the end of the respective lineages as BOV, GES, BOD, RAV, UCH, and UKR. It is believed that the Bovet and Ravizza lines are probably part of the Rebiban succession, but no details of the consecrations of the respective heads of the lineages have been found. It is also possible that the Gesualdo and von Bodman lines also join the Rebiban line, but it has not been possible to docu­ ment the consecrations of Gesualdo and von Bodman. The Uchanski line, which ends in 1552, probably does not join the Re­ biban line. It is a Polish line, which accounts for two-thirds of the current Polish episcopate. Four of the 196 bishops belong to Oriental rites: two to the Ukranian Byzantine rite, one each to the Armenian, and Ethiopian. The bishops chroni­ cled in this work have brought the special Salesian charism to the episcopate and to the dioceses, which they have served and continue to serve on six conti­ nents. Salesian Bishops 55 SALES/AN BISHOPS EPISCOPAL ORDINATIONS 1 1) Giovanni Cagliero. December 7, 1884. Torino, Church of Maria Ausiliatrice. Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda, Archbishop of Torino, assisted by Emiliano Manacorda, Bishop of Fossano and Giovanni Battista Bertagna, Titu­ lar Bishop of Capharnaum, consecrated as Titular Bishop of Magydus, Vicar Apostolic ofPatagonia. Born at Castelnuovo d'Asti (Torino) January 11, 1838; priest June 14, 1862; named November 13 , 1884; Titular Archbishop of Sebaste March 24, 1904; Apostolic Delegate to Costa Rica June 10, 1908; Cardinal December 6, 1915; Bishop ofFrascati December 16, 1920; died February 27,1926. Episcopal lineage: G. Alimonda (1877); S. Magnasco (1868); G. von Hohenlohe (1857); Pius IX, G. Mastai-Ferretti (1827); Pius VIII, F. Castiglioni (1800); G. Doria Pamphilj (1773); V. de Cordoba (1761); M. Quintano (1749); E. Enriquez (1743); Benedict XIV, P. Lambertini (1724); Benedict :xm, V. Orsini (1675); P. Altieri (1666); U. Carpegna (1630); L. Caetani (1622); L. Lu­ dovisi (1621); G. Sanvitale (1624); G. Bernerio (1586); G. Santoro (1566); S. Rebiba (1541 ). 2) Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna. March 12. 1893. Rome, Church of Sacro Cuore di Gesu a Castro Pretoria. Lucido Cardinal Parocchi assisted by Alessan­ dro Grossi, Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis and Giovanni Cagliero, Titular Bishop ofMagydus, consecrated as Titular Bishop ofOea. Born at Montemagno March 1, 1850; priest June 8,1873; named Janu­ ary 19, 1893; died November 6, 1895. Episcopal lineage: L. Parocchi (1871); C. Patrizi (1828); C. Odescal­ chi (1823); G. Della Somaglia (1788); H. Gerdil (1777); M. Colonna (1762); Clement XIII, C. Rezzonico (1743); Benedict XIV-5ee entry 1. 3) Giacomo Costamagna, May 23, 1895. Torino, Church of Maria Ausiliatrice. David Riccardi, Archbishop of Torino, assisted by Giovanni Bat­ tista Bertagna, Titular Bishop of Caphamaum and Basile Leto, Titular Bishop of 1 Each entry contains the Bishop's name, date of consecration (ordination), city and site of consecration, followed by the Ordaining Prelate and two assistants and (in italics) the diocese or title to which the bishop was consecrated. The bishops are listed according to their date of episcopal consecration. 56 Journal of Salesian Studies Samaria, consecrated as Titular Bishop of Colonia, Vicar Apostolic ofMendez, Ecuador. Born at Caramagna (Torino) January 2, 1846; priest in June 1868; named March 18, 1895; resigned from his vicariate in 1919; died September 8, 1921. Episcopal lineage: D. Riccardi (1878); B. Leto (1873); C. Fissori (1871); L. Gastaldi (1867); A. Riccardi (1842); G. Fransoni (1822); P. Galleffi (1 819); A. Mattei (1777); B. Giraud (1767); Clement Xlll-see entry 2. 4) Giovanni Marenco. May 16, 1909. Rome, Church of Maria Ausi­ liatrice. Francesco Cardinal Satolli, Bishop of Frascati, assisted by Francesco Sogaro, Titular Archbishop of Amida, and Antonio V albonesi, Titular Bishop of Memphis, consecrated as Bishop ofMassa Carrara. Born at Ovada (Alessandria) April 27, 1853; priest December 18, 1875; named April 29, 1909; Titular Archbishop of Edessa, Apostolic Internuncio to Costa Rica January 7, 1917; died October 22, 1921. Episcopal lineage: F. Satolli (1888); R Monaco La Valletta (1874); Pius lX--5ee entry I . S) Antonio Malan. July 26, 1914. Sao Paolo. Church of Sagrado Cora­ yao de Jesus. Giuseppe A versa, Titular Archbishop of Sardes, Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil, assisted by Joao Batista Nery Correa, Bishop of Campinas and Jose Homem de Mello, Bishop of Sao Carlos do Pinhal, consecrated as Titular Bishop ofAmisus , Prelate ofRegistro do Araguaya. Born at San Pietro (Como) December 16, 1862; priest October 25, 1889; named May 25, 1914; first Bishop de Petrolina January 3, 1924; died Oc­ tober 28, 1931 at Sao Paulo, Brazil. Episcopal lineage: G. Aversa (1906); R Merry del Val (1900); M. Rampolla (1882); E. Howard (1872); C. Sacconi (1851); G. Fransoni-see entry 3. 6) Francisco Aquino Correa. January 1, 1915. Cuiaba Cathedral. Carlos d'Amour, Archbishop of Cuiaba assisted by Cirillo Freitas, Bishop of Corumba and Antonio Malan, Titular Bishop of Amisus, consecrated as Titular Bishop ofPrusiade , Auxiliary ofCuiabiz, Argentina. Born at Cuiaba April 2, 1885; priest January 17, 1909; named April 2, 1914; Archbishop ofCuiabaAugust 26, 1931; died March 22, 1956. Episcopal lineage: C. D'Amour (1878); J. Gonyalves de Azevedo (1866); A. de Macedo Costa (1861); M. Falcinelli Antoniacci (1853); G. della Salesian Bishops 57 Genga Sermattei (1833); B. Pacca (1 786); G. Boschi (1760); Clement XIII-see entry 2. 7) Felll Ambrosio Guerra. September 15, 1915. San Salvador, Ca­ thedral of Salvador del Mundo. Antonio Adolfo Perez y Aguilar, Archbishop of San Salvador, assisted by Juan Duenas, Bishop of San Miguel and Jaime Villanueva, Bishop of Santa Ana, consecrated as Titular Bishop of Amatha, Apostolic Administrator ofSantiago de Cuba, Cuba. Born at Volpedo (Tortona) December 7, 1866; priest April 2, 1890; named May 26, 1915; Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba August 17, 1916; Titular Archbishop ofVerissa January 16, 1925; died January 10, 1957. Episcopal lineage: A. Perez (1888); M. Velez (1887); L. Paroc­ chi--see entry 2. 8). Luigi Olivares October 29, 1916. Rome, Church of Santa Maria Liberatrice. Giovanni Cardinal Cagliero, assisted by Pasquale Morgante, Archbishop of Ravenna and Giovanni Marenco, Bishop of Massa Carrara, con­ secrated as Bishop ofNepi e Sutri. Born at Corbetta (Milano) October 18, 1873; priest April 4, 1896; named July 15, 1916; died May 19, 1943, at Pordenone. Episcopal lineage: G. Cagliero-see entry 1. 9) Abraham Aguilera Bravo, May 20, 1917. Santiago de Chile, Basil­ ica of La Gratitud Nacional. Sebastiano Nicotra, Titular Archbishop of Heraclea, Apostolic Nuncio to Chile assisted by Luis Enrique Izquierdo Vargas, Bishop of Concepci6n and Eduardo Gimpert Paut, Titular Bishop of Echinos, consecrated as Titular Bishop of Issus, Vicar Apostolic of Mage/lanes y Islas Malvinas, Chile.
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    HOSPITALLERS IS PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA ® Volume 1 Winter 2004/2005 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, U.S.A. ������������ Fellow members of the American Association: New York’s Kids Deserve Respect – am writing this on Thanksgiving weekend, in the wake of our Association’s events over the Healthy Respect I weekend of November 12th. By all accounts, our By James P. Manning, K.M. and John P. Margand, Esq. Annual Business Meeting, Investiture, and Dinner were great successes, and, for that, among many exual abstinence is not a popular subject among teenagers attending schools in other blessings, we give THANKS. the New York City area. To make matters worse, there is stiff entrenched Over the annual events weekend, we were Sopposition to abstinence education at the highest levels of New York’s edu- fortunatefortunate thatthat thethe GrandGrand MMagistryagistry wwasas wwellell rrepresentedepresented bbyy tthehe PPrelaterelate cational community, where a failed condom social marketing policy in city schools of the Order, Archbishop Angelo Acerbi, as well as four members of the continues to spawn sexual promiscuity, disease, and a host of health-related Sovereign Council – H.E. Gian Luca Chiavari, Receiver of the Common behavioral disorders. Treasure (CFO); Fra’ Elie de Comminges; Fra’ John MacPherson; and H.E. Antonio Sanchez – Corea, Jr. In spite of these long odds, Project REACH’s Healthy Respect program has suc- Moving the weekend to the November timeframe from January paid off in increased participation by our membership. Attendance at all func- ceeded, in less than twelve months, in reach- tions appeared to be up signifi cantly from that of last January, but the only ing over 800 at-risk students with up to real measure we took was of Annual Dinner attendance – 750, up 25% twenty hours of character-based abstinence from 600 in January.
  • Precious Blood Unites Mankind and Learnt

    Precious Blood Unites Mankind and Learnt

    Precious Blood Unites Mankind IN THREE OFFICIAL decisions, each of tremen­ shedding symbolizes the giving of life, of one’s all. blood in the struggle with sin” (Heb. xii, 4). Unless and L e a r n t dous significance for the Church’s worship, Pope That is exactly what Christ did when he poured out we resist “unto blood,” with our utmost efforts, we P. 0. Box 1620. Denver, Colorado John XXIU'called attention to the devotion to the His Blood for us. are not worthy of the Blood shed for us by Christ. Fh'ecious Blood. Only the smallest drop would have more than 'The knowledge that the Precious Blood was shed How M any Popos? He approved a hew litany for the feast, issued sufficed to wash away all the sins of the world. But not only for me but for my neighbor should cause Q. At the time of the election of our late Holy Father, he an Apostolic Letter on the devotion, and.inserted the Our Lord, by a most painful death, gave, torrents of me to have a lively sense of charity. was referred to as the 262nd Pope. His predecessor, Pius XII, invocation, “Blessed be His most Precious Blood” His Blood, as it painfully oozed from the lashes on This charity will include the corporal and spirit­ was also called the 262nd Pope. Now the late Pope John into the Divine Praises. ■ His back, the marks of thorns on His head, and the ual works of mercy, but especially those acts of char­ has been called the 261st Pope and his successor is to be Devotion to the Precious Blood was very close to nails driven into His wrist.