Giacomo Cardinal Biffi †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jun 1928		Born
23 Dec 1950	22.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy
7 Dec 1975	47.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
7 Dec 1975	47.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fidenae
11 Jan 1976	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fidenae
19 Apr 1984	55.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
1 Jun 1984	55.9	Installed	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
25 May 1985	56.9	Elevated to Cardinal
25 May 1985	56.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
16 Dec 2003	75.5	Retired	Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
11 Jul 2015	87.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna, Italy

MicroData Summary
Giacomo Biffi
Giacomo Cardinal Biffi
(born 13 Jun 1928, died 11 Jul 2015)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna

Consistory - 1985: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Ordained Bishop Sant'Andrea, Church, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Cathedral, Bologna, Archdiocese of Bologna

a priest for 64.5 years
a bishop for 39.5 years
a cardinal for 30.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bl. Ildefonso (Alfred Aloisius) Cardinal Schuster, O.S.B. †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernardo Citterio †
Titular Bishop of Floriana
Bishop Libero Tresoldi †
Titular Bishop of Altinum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo † (1960)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Cardinal Montini † (1954)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

Ordained Priest:
Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, O.F.M. (1990)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Giuseppe Fabiani † (1989)
Bishop Claudio Stagni (1991)
Archbishop Paolo Rabitti (1995)
Carlo Cardinal Caffarra † (1995)
Bishop Ernesto Vecchi † (1998)
Bishop Elio Tinti † (2000)
Bishop Tommaso Ghirelli (2002)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 88654997
WikiData: Q81156

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 130
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
d: CB, 11 Jul 2015
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
loc: AM, 25 Feb 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 35, Number 2,138

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