Audrys Juozas Cardinal Backis

Archbishop of Vilnius

Cardinal-Priest of Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Feb 1937		Born	Kaunas
18 Mar 1961	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kaunas, Lithuania
5 Aug 1988	51.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Meta
5 Aug 1988	51.5	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Netherlands
4 Oct 1988	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Meta
24 Dec 1991	54.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
21 Feb 2001	64.1	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	64.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Vilnius.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Luigi Cardinal Traglia †
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Achille Cardinal Silvestrini
Bishop Juozas Preikšas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Audrys Juozas Cardinal Backis (1988)
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla † (1958)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jonas Boruta, S.J.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Eugenijus Bartulis
Bishop Rimantas Norvila

Home | Search | Countries | Religious Orders | Popes | Holy See | Roman Curia | Statistics
Bishops: All | Living | Deceased | Youngest | Oldest | Cardinal Electors
Dioceses: All | Current | Titular | Vacant | Structured View
Events: Recent | by Date | by Year | Necrology

About Catholic-Hierarchy

Terminology/Site Help

Copyright David M. Cheney, 1996-2008
code: v2.5.0, 1 Jan 08; data: 17 Jan 08