Luigi Piavi

Portrait Luigi Piavi (Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
Coat of arms Luigi Pivai

Luigi Piavi, OFM (born on 17 March 1833 in Ravina, Italy - died on 24 January 1905 in Jerusalem, Israel) was a Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

Life

Luigi Piavi received his priestly ordination in 1855. Pope Pius IX appointed him in 1876 apostolic delegate in Syria and put as head of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo. He received his episcopal ordination as Titular Archbishop of Siunia on 18 November 1876, and in 1889 Piavi was appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem by Pope Leo XIII, the only Catholic Latin Patriarch in the East.

From 1889 until his death in 1905 he was Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

References

    Catholic Church titles
    Preceded by
    Giovanni Vincenzo Bracco    		 Grand Master
    of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre
    1889–1905     		Succeeded by
    Pope Pius X


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