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Pietro Gravina

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His Eminence
Pietro Gravina
Archbishop of Palermo
Church Catholic Church
Archdiocese Palermo
Installed 23 September 1816
Term ended 6 December 1830
Predecessor Raffaele Mormile
Successor Gaetano Trigona e Parisi
Other posts Titular Archbishop of Nicaea (1794–1817)
Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland (1794–1803)
Apostolic Nuncio to Spain (1803–1816)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna (1817–1830)
Orders
Ordination 7 April 1792
Consecration 14 September 1794
by Francesco Saverio de Zelada
Created cardinal 8 March 1816
by Pope Pius VII
Personal details
Born 16 December 1749
Montevago, Kingdom of Naples
Died 6 December 1830 (aged 80)
Palermo, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Ordination history
History
Priestly ordination
Date
7 April 1792
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator
Francesco Saverio de Zelada
Co-consecrators
Nicola Buschi,
Michele Di Pietro
Date
14 September 1794
Cardinalate
Elevated by
Pope Pius VII
Date
8 March 1816
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Pietro Gravina as principal consecrator
Michele de Vincenti
25 May 1817
Paolo Filipponi
5 July 1818
Giovanni Baptist Maria Angelini
30 April 1826
Pietro Tasca
21 May 1826
Giovanni Battista Bagnasco
c. 1828
Ignazio Cafisi
c. April 1830

Pietro Gravina (16 December 1749 – 6 December 1830) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal who was the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Palermo from 1816 to his death in 1830.

Bibliography

  • G. Travagliato, Gravina Pietro, in Enciclopedia della Sicilia, edited by C. Napoleone, Parma, Ricci (Ed.), 2006, pp. 469–470.