Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology

Cardinal-Priest of San Giorgio in Velabro

Motto: Prædica Verbum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Oct 1942		Born
28 Jun 1966	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy
3 Sep 2007	64.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari
3 Sep 2007	64.8	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
3 Sep 2007	64.8	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church
3 Sep 2007	64.8	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
29 Sep 2007	64.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Villamagna in Proconsulari
20 Nov 2010	68.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
20 Nov 2010	68.0	Elevated to Cardinal
23 Jan 2011	68.2	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
30 Jul 2012	69.7	Resigned	President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church
28 Feb 2013	70.3	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
28 Feb 2013	70.3	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
16 Mar 2013	70.4	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
16 Mar 2013	70.4	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology
3 May 2021	78.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giorgio in Velabro
5 Jun 2022	79.6	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
25 Nov 2022	80.1	Retired	President of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology

MicroData Summary
Gianfranco Ravasi
Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi
(born 18 Oct 1942)
President Emeritus of Sacred Archeology

Consistory - 2010: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Merate, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Priest Duomo, Cathedral, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology.

a priest for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Giovanni Umberto Cardinal Colombo †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Benedict XVI
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}
Marian Franciszek Cardinal Jaworski †
Archbishop of Lviv

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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:
Archbishop Gergely Kovács (2020)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Giuseppe Sciacca (2011)
Bishop Barthélemy Adoukonou (2011)
Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Merate, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Priest	Duomo, Cathedral, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/135287
VIAF: 49261977
WikiData: Q531594

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 3 Sep 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 190, Number 15,525
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
loc: AM, 12 Mar 2018
ab: Bollettino, 3 May 2021

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