Michael Louis Cardinal Fitzgerald, M. Afr.

Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Egypt, Arab Republic of

Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Aug 1937		Born
3 Feb 1961	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
22 Jan 1987	49.4	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
16 Dec 1991	54.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nepte
6 Jan 1992	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nepte
1 Oct 2002	65.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Nepte
1 Oct 2002	65.1	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
2 Apr 2005	67.6	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
21 Apr 2005	67.6	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
15 Feb 2006	68.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
23 Oct 2012	75.1	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt, Arab Republic of
5 Oct 2019	82.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)
5 Oct 2019	82.1	Elevated to Cardinal
1 Feb 2020	82.4	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)

MicroData Summary for Michael Louis Fitzgerald
(VIAF: 93119010; WikiData: Q710490)
Michael Louis Cardinal Fitzgerald M. Afr. (born 17 Aug 1937) Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus of Egypt, Arab Republic of

Consistory - 2019: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Event Place
Birth Place Walsall, Staffordshire, Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
Ordained Priest St. Mary Magdalen, Church, Whetstone, London, Archdiocese of Westminster, England, Great Britain
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Nunciature to Egypt, Arab Republic of.

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

Ordained Priest by:
William Cardinal Godfrey †
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Giuseppe (Josip) Uhac †
Titular Archbishop of Tharros

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 Claude Jean Narcisse Rault, M. Afr. (2004)
Bishop Adel Zaky, O.F.M. † (2009)
Bishop John (Gordon) MacWilliam, M. Afr. (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Walsall, Staffordshire, Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
Ordained Priest	St. Mary Magdalen, Church, Whetstone, London, Archdiocese of Westminster, England, Great Britain
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 15 Feb 2006
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 128, Number 11,562
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 129
loc: CL, 25 Jan 2018
card: Bollettino, 1 Sep 2019
cdea: Bollettino, 5 Oct 2019
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 5 Oct 2019
i: Bollettino, 27 Jan 2020

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