Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski

Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Oct 1939		Born	Bródki
27 May 1963	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Poznań, Poland
21 Dec 1982	43.2	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Acropolis
21 Dec 1982	43.2	Appointed	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
6 Jan 1983	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Acropolis
16 Dec 1991	52.2	Appointed	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
5 Oct 1998	59.0	Appointed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
15 Nov 1999	60.1	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)
21 Feb 2001	61.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere
21 Feb 2001	61.4	Elevated to Cardinal
12 May 2001	61.6	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Nicola in Carcere
2 Apr 2005	65.5	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)
21 Apr 2005	65.5	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study)

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

Please contact the Cardinal through the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study).

a priest for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antonio Baraniak, S.D.B. †
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo
Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski (1983)
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 †

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F.
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pier Giorgio Micchiardi
Bishop Marek Jedraszewski

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