Benedictine Congregation of the Celestines (O.S.B. Cel.)

Also known as: Cölestiner (Deutsch) / Orden de los Celestinos (español) / Ordre des Célestins (français) / Congregazione Benedettina dei Celestini (Italiano) / Congregatio o anche Ordo Cœlestinorum (latine)

Type: Monastic Order of Pontifical Right (for Men)

Confederation: Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict (Benedictines)

History

Past Superiors

Superior General:ItalyFr. Francesco Ronci, O.S.B. Cel. (later Cardinal) (1285 – 1294)

Founder

Founder:ItalyFr. Pietro del Morrone, O.S.B. Cel. (later Pope Celestine V, Saint) (1254)

Deceased Bishops (1 Pope, 2 Cardinals, 4 Archbishops, 16 Bishops)

1844: ItalyBishop Francesco Saverio Durini, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Aversa (Italy)

1843: ItalyBishop Francesco Maria Cipriani, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Veroli (Italy)

1804: ItalyArchbishop Luigi Trasmondi, O.S.B. Cel., Metropolitan Archbishop of Trani (Italy)

>1792: ItalyBishop Salvatore Palica, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Bisceglie (Italy)

1791: ItalyBishop Saverio Palica, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Andria (Italy)

1776: ItalyBishop Giuseppe Orlandi, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Giovinazzo (Italy)

1774: ItalyArchbishop Innocenzo Gorgoni, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Penne (Italy) and President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

1764: ItalyBishop Nicola Cimaglia, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Vieste (Italy)

1753: ItalyBishop Fortunato Palumbo, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Trivento (Italy)

1747: ItalyArchbishop Domenico Rossi, O.S.B. Cel., Metropolitan Archbishop of Palermo (Italy)

1746: ItalyBishop Francesco Antonio Bussolini, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Penne (Italy) and Bishop of Atri (Italy)

1667: ItalyArchbishop Fabrizio Campana, O.S.B. Cel., Metropolitan Archbishop of Conza (Italy)

1664: ItalyBishop Donato Pascasio, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Trevico (Italy)

1660: ItalyBishop Tiburzio Bollini, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Isernia (Italy)

>1653: ItalyBishop Gerolamo Bollini, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Isernia (Italy)

1648: ItalyBishop Placido Padiglia, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Alessano (Italy)

>1447: ItalyBishop Pietro de Agello, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi (Italy)

1428: ItalyBishop Antonello Gesualdo, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Cassano all’Jonio (Italy)

1396: ItalyBishop Giovanni da Comino, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Chieti (Italy)

1354: ItalyBishop Nicola, O.S.B. Cel., Bishop of Bovino (Italy)

1300: ItalyCardinal Tommaso d’Ocre, O.S.B. Cel., Cardinal-Priest of S. Cecilia and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church of Reverend Apostolic Camera

1296: ItalySaint Pope Celestine V, Supreme Pontiff

1294: ItalyCardinal Francesco Ronci, O.S.B. Cel., Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and Superior General of Benedictine Congregation of the Celestines

Saints (1)

1296: ItalySaint Celestine V, pope

Blesseds (1)

1341: ItalyBlessed Roberto da Salle (Roberto Santuccio), abbot

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