Gennaro Portanova

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{{Infobox Christian leader

|type = Cardinal

|honorific_prefix = His Eminence

|name = Gennaro Portanova

|image = Gennaro Portanova.jpg

|title = Archbishop of Reggio Calabria

|church = Roman Catholic Church

|archdiocese = Reggio Calabria

|see = Reggio Calabria

|appointed = 16 March 1888

|term_end = 25 April 1908

|predecessor = Francesco Converti

|successor = Rinaldo Camillo Rousset

|other_post = Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente (1899–1908)

|ordination = 22 May 1869

|ordained_by = Sisto Riario Sforza

|consecration = 12 August 1883

|consecrated_by = Raffaele Monaco La Valletta

|cardinal = 19 June 1899

|created_cardinal_by = Pope Leo XIII

|rank = Cardinal-Priest

|birth_name = Gennaro Portanova

|birth_date = 11 October 1845

|birth_place = Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1908|04|25|1845|10|11}}

|death_place = Reggio Calabria, Kingdom of Italy

|buried = Reggio Calabria Cathedral

|previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Bishop of Rhosus (1883–85)|Coadjutor Bishop of Ischia (1883–85)|Bishop of Ischia (1885–88)|Apostolic Administrator of Bova (1889–95)|Apostolic Administrator of Oppido Mamertina (1898–99)}} }}

Gennaro Portanova (born 11 October 1845 in Naples, Italy, died 25 April 1908 in Reggio Calabria) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church;[https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1899.htm Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, Biographical Dictionary, Pope Leo XIII, Consistory of June 19, 1899] he was also a professor of theology at the Naples Seminary (1877-83), bishop of Ischia (1883-88), after the large earthquake there, and later archbishop of Reggio Calabria 1888-1908.

He was made a cardinal in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ongwCgAAQBAJ&dq=Giovanni+Battista+Casali+del+Drago&pg=PA36 Google Books website, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary, by Harris M Lentz III, page 148] During this time he was Protector of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate. He took part in the 1903 conclave which elected Pope Pius X.[https://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1903.html California State University Northridge website, Sede Vacante 1903]