Andrzej Maria Cardinal Deskur

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Cardinal-Priest of S. Cesareo in Palatio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Feb 1924		Born	Sancygniów, Poland
20 Aug 1950	26.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
1970	45.8	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Sep 1973	49.5	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
17 Jun 1974	50.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thenae
30 Jun 1974	50.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thenae
15 Feb 1980	56.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Thenae
15 Feb 1980	56.0	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
8 Apr 1984	60.1	Retired	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
25 May 1985	61.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Cesareo in Palatio
25 May 1985	61.2	Elevated to Cardinal
29 Jan 1996	71.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Cesareo in Palatio

Consistory - 1985: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Non-Voting (Age)

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier †
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Giovanni Cardinal Benelli †
Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Andrzej Maria Cardinal Deskur (1974)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hubert Brandenburg
Bishop Karl-August Siegel †
Boleslaw Cardinal Filipiak †

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