Vinko Cardinal Puljić

Archbishop Emeritus of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Chiara a Vigna Clara

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Sep 1945		Born
29 Jun 1970	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
19 Nov 1990	45.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina
6 Jan 1991	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina
26 Nov 1994	49.2	Elevated to Cardinal
26 Nov 1994	49.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Chiara a Vigna Clara
29 Jan 2022	76.3	Retired	Archbishop of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}, Bosnia and Herzegovina

MicroData Summary
Vinko Puljić
Vinko Cardinal Puljić
(born 8 Sep 1945)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}

Consistory - 1994: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - February 2006: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - March 2015: Bishop
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Priječani, Diocese of Banjaluka
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Vrhbosna {Sarajevo}.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Stjepan Bäuerlein †
Bishop of Djakovo o Bosna i Srijem
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali
Titular Archbishop of Volsinium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. 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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Pero Sudar (1994)
Archbishop Tomo Vukšić (2011)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul Iby (1993)
Archbishop Martin Vidović (2004)
Archbishop Petar Antun Rajič (2010)
Bishop Marko Semren, O.F.M. (2010)
Bishop Ivan Ćurić (2019)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 50098942
WikiData: Q506570

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125, Number 11,296
r: Bollettino, 29 Jan 2022

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