Ernesto Fontana

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]