Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski †

Deceased

Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

Cardinal-Priest of San Nicola in Carcere

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Oct 1939		Born
27 May 1962	22.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Poznań, Poland
27 May 1963	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Poznań, Poland
21 Dec 1982	43.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Acropolis
21 Dec 1982	43.1	Appointed	Secretary of the Apostolic Signatura
6 Jan 1983	43.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Acropolis
16 Dec 1991	52.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Acropolis
5 Oct 1998	58.9	Appointed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
15 Nov 1999	60.0	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
21 Feb 2001	61.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere
21 Feb 2001	61.3	Elevated to Cardinal
12 May 2001	61.5	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere
2 Apr 2005	65.4	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
21 Apr 2005	65.5	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
21 Feb 2011	71.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Nicola in Carcere
28 Feb 2013	73.3	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
16 Mar 2013	73.4	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
31 Mar 2015³	75.4	Retired	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
17 Jul 2020	80.7	Died	Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Zenon Grocholewski
(VIAF: 72887528; WikiData: Q189728)
Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski (born 11 Oct 1939, died 17 Jul 2020) Prefect Emeritus of Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Bródki, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Deacon Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Priest Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral Basilica, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland

a priest for 57.1 years
a bishop for 37.5 years
a cardinal for 19.4 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Archbishop Antoni Baraniak, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Poznań
Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antoni Baraniak, S.D.B. †
Archbishop of Poznań
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

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

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Juan José Pineda Fasquelle, C.M.F. (1987)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B. (2004)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pier Giorgio Micchiardi (1991)
Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski (1997)
Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani (2013)
Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu (2013)
Archbishop Georg Gänswein (2013)
Archbishop Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin (2013)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bródki, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Deacon	Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Priest	Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral Basilica, Poznań, Archdiocese of Poznań, Poland

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 21 Feb 2011
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
r: Bollettino, 31 Mar 2015
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 21 Feb 2001
d: CB, 17 Jul 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 77, Number 6,250
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 245, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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