Giacomo Cardinal Biffi

Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna

Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jun 1928		Born	Milano
23 Dec 1950	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy
7 Dec 1975	47.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
7 Dec 1975	47.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fidenae
11 Jan 1976	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fidenae
19 Apr 1984	55.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
1 Jun 1984	56.0	Installed	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
25 May 1985	56.9	Elevated to Cardinal
25 May 1985	56.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
16 Dec 2003	75.5	Retired	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy

Consistory - 1985: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

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Ordained Priest by:
Bl. Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, O.S.B. †
Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernardo Citterio †
Bishop Libero Tresoldi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giacomo Cardinal Biffi (1976)
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo † (1960)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
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 Giuseppe Fabiani
Bishop Claudio Stagni
Bishop Paolo Rabitti
Carlo Cardinal Caffarra
Bishop Ernesto Vecchi
Bishop Elio Tinti
Bishop Tommaso Ghirelli

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