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Francesco Monaco (5 August 1898, Catholic Hierarchy entry
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He was ordained priest on 15 February 1925.
Agira
Agira (; Sicilian language, Sicilian: ''Aggira'', grc, Ἀγύριον) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Enna, Sicily (southern Italy). It is located in the mid-valley of the River Salso River, Salso, from Enna. Until 1861 it was cal ...
- 9 February 1986, Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...
) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop./ref>
He was ordained priest on 15 February 1925. Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII ( it, Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (; 2 March 18769 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958. Before his e ...
appointed him titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of Germensis in Galatia and coadjutor bishop
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co ...
of Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (; scn, Nissa or ) is a ''comune'' in the central interior of Sicily, Italy, and the capital of the Province of Caltanissetta. Its inhabitants are called ''Nisseni''.
In 2017, the city had a population of 62,797. It is the 14th l ...
on 12 December 1953 and he was consecrated by bishop Clemente Gaddi
Clemente Gaddi (23 December 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an Italian prelate who was bishop of Bergamo in the years after the Second Vatican Council.
Life
He was born in Mandello del Lario and ordained as a priest in 1926. From 1926 to 1953 ...
on 24 February the following year. He laid down both posts when he was made bishop of Caltanissetta
The Italian Catholic Diocese of Caltanissetta ( la, Dioecesis Calatanisiadensis) is in Sicily, It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Agrigento.
History
Caltanissetta once belonged to the diocese of Girgenti, but was created an episcopal see ...
in 1956, a role he then held until his retirement in 1973.
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