Ernesto Fontana (7 October 1830 – 4 November 1910) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was a seminary teacher, Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary from 1878 to 1894, and Bishop of Crema from 1894 to 1910.
Biography edit
Ernesto Fontana was born on 7 October 1830 in Milan, Italy. He was ordained a priest on 1 April 1854.
He taught moral theology at the Major Seminary of Milan. He served as Rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome from 1878 to 1894.[1] He was named a consultor to the Sacred Congregation of the Index and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas.[2]
On 18 May 1894, Pope Leo XIII named him Bishop of Crema.[2] He received his episcopal consecration in the Seminary chapel on 24 May 1894 from Cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi.[1]
Fontana died on 4 November 1910 at the age of 80.[3]
References edit
- ^ a b "Il Pontificio Seminario Lombardo nel centenario della fondazione" (PDF) (in Italian). Rome. 1965. pp. 23–31, 118, 127. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
A cura di Ottavio Cavalleri e Giuse ppe Scabini
- ^ a b "Notizie". Le missioni cattoliche rivista quindicinale (in Italian): 243. 1894. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
- ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. II. 1910. p. 893. Retrieved 16 June 2020.