Bishop Alberto Costa †

Deceased

Bishop of Lecce, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Mar 1873		Born
19 Sep 1896	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Borgo San Donnino, Italy
4 Jan 1912	38.8	Appointed	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
28 Apr 1912	39.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
15 Aug 1912	39.4	Installed	Bishop of Melfi e Rapolla, Italy
30 Apr 1924	51.1	Appointed	Bishop of Venosa, Italy
7 Dec 1928	55.7	Appointed	Bishop of Lecce, Italy
2 Aug 1950	77.3	Died	Bishop of Lecce, Italy

MicroData Summary for Alberto Costa
(VIAF: 88923104; WikiData: Q3608245)
Bishop Alberto Costa (born 15 Mar 1873, died 2 Aug 1950) Bishop of Lecce

Event Place
Birth Place Santa Croce di Zibello
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Borgo San Donnino, Diocese of Borgo San Donnino
Death Place Lecce, Diocese of Lecce

a priest for 53.8 years
a bishop for 38.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Giovanni Battista Tescari †
Bishop of Borgo San Donnino
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Leonida Mapelli †
Bishop of Borgo San Donnino
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Andrea Righetti †
Bishop of Carpi
Bishop Angelo Antonio Fiorini, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Pontremoli

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Leonida Mapelli † (1908)
Bishop of Borgo San Donnino
Bl. Andrea Carlo Cardinal Ferrari † (1890)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Francesco Maffei † (1916)
Bishop Francesco Potenza † (1932)
Bishop Gregorio Falconieri † (1935)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Santa Croce di Zibello
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Borgo San Donnino, Diocese of Borgo San Donnino
Death Place	Lecce, Diocese of Lecce

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1941
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1951
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1912, Number 30
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 33, Number 1,952
opd/c1/loc: CB, 3 Sep 2021

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