Kurt Cardinal Koch

President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Mar 1950		Born	Emmenbrücke
20 Jun 1982	32.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel, Switzerland
21 Aug 1995	45.4	Selected	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
6 Dec 1995	45.7	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
6 Jan 1996	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
1 Jul 2010	60.3	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
1 Jul 2010	60.3	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)
20 Nov 2010	60.7	Elevated to Cardinal
20 Nov 2010	60.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
1 Jan 2011	60.8	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
28 Feb 2013	63.0	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
16 Mar 2013	63.0	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Consistory - 2010: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: 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 Otto Wüst †
Titular Bishop of Tubia
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(Bl. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Felix Gmür (1999)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Denis Theurillat (2000)
Bishop Felix Gmür (2011)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bernd Joachim Uhl (2001)
Bishop Markus Büchel (2006)
Bishop Vitus Huonder (2007)

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 1 Jul 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,644
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013

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