Mario Cardinal Zenari

Apostolic Nuncio to Syria

Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jan 1946		Born
5 Jul 1970	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Verona, Italy
12 Jul 1999	53.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Iulium Carnicum
12 Jul 1999	53.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d’Ivoire
12 Jul 1999	53.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Niger
24 Jul 1999	53.5	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Burkina Faso
25 Sep 1999	53.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Iulium Carnicum
10 May 2004	58.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka
30 Dec 2008	62.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Syria
19 Nov 2016	70.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
19 Nov 2016	70.8	Elevated to Cardinal
25 Mar 2017	71.2	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri

MicroData Summary for Mario Zenari
(WikiData: Q1457374)
Mario Cardinal Zenari (born 5 Jan 1946) Apostolic Nuncio of Syria

Consistory - 2016: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Villafranca di Verona, Diocese of Verona, Italy
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria Assunta, Cathedral, Verona, Diocese of Verona, Italy

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

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Giuseppe Carraro †
Bishop of Verona
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Flavio Roberto Carraro, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Verona
Archbishop Marcello Zago, O.M.I. †
Titular Archbishop of Rusellae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jean-Jacques Koffi Oi Koffi (2003)
Bishop Joseph Ponniah (2008)
Bishop Hanna Jallouf, O.F.M. (2023)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Villafranca di Verona, Diocese of Verona, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria Assunta, Cathedral, Verona, Diocese of Verona, Italy

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 30 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 156, Number 13,620
card: Bollettino, 9 Oct 2016
i: Bollettino, 21 Mar 2017
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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