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Alberto Gori, Patriarch
  • 09.02.1889 : Birth in San Piero Agliana (Pistoia)
  • 19.07.1914: Ordination to the priesthood
  • 1908: joined the Franciscans
  • 1922: teacher at the college of Aleppo
  • 06.03.1937: Custos of the Holy Land
  • 11.11.1949 : Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
  • 27.12.1949 : Episcopal Consecration in the church of Saint Anthony
  • 12.1960: Member of the Central Commission at the Vatican II Council
  • 06.1967: appointed to the Synod by Pope Paul VI
  • 25.11.1970: death in Jerusalem, caused by a heart attack
  • 26.11.1970: Burial in the pro-cathedral