Walter Cardinal Kasper

President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Cardinal-Deacon of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1933		Born	Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany
6 Apr 1957	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
17 Apr 1989	56.1	Appointed	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
17 Jun 1989	56.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
16 Mar 1999	66.0	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
31 May 1999	66.2	Resigned	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
21 Feb 2001	68.0	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	68.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova
3 Mar 2001	68.0	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
2 Apr 2005	72.1	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
21 Apr 2005	72.1	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht †
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Karl Cardinal Lehmann
Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Walter Cardinal Kasper (1989)
Archbishop Oskar Saier † (1972)
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
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 Johannes Kreidler
Bishop Thomas Maria Renz
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Joseph Pierre Aimé Marie Doré, P.S.S.
Bishop Gebhard Fürst

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