Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy

Bishop Emeritus of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Mar 1938		Born
23 Jun 1963	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland
25 Mar 1992	53.9	Appointed	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland
26 Apr 1992	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland
16 Nov 2013	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Bielsko-Żywiec, Poland

MicroData Summary
Tadeusz Rakoczy
Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy
(born 30 Mar 1938)
Bishop Emeritus of Bielsko-Żywiec

Ad Limina - December 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

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

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Bielsko-Żywiec.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †
Titular Bishop of Ombi
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Franciszek Antoni Cardinal Macharski †
Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova

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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Piotr Greger (2011)
Bishop Roman Pindel (2014)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 101633641
WikiData: Q535963

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 130, Number 11,673
r: Bollettino, 16 Nov 2013

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