Walter Cardinal Brandmüller

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences

Cardinal-Priest of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jan 1929		Born
26 Jul 1953	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bamberg, Germany
13 Jun 1998	69.4	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
3 Dec 2009	80.9	Retired	President of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
4 Nov 2010	81.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania
13 Nov 2010	81.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania
20 Nov 2010	81.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi
20 Nov 2010	81.8	Elevated to Cardinal
6 Mar 2011	82.1	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi
3 May 2021	92.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi

MicroData Summary
Walter Brandmüller
Walter Cardinal Brandmüller
(born 5 Jan 1929)
President Emeritus of Historical Sciences

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

Event Place
Birth Place Ansbach, Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany
Ordained Bishop Santa Maria dell’Anima, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.

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Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb †
Archbishop of Bamberg
Principal Consecrator:
Raffaele Cardinal Farina, S.D.B.
Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ludwig Schick
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Giuseppe Antonio De Andrea †
Titular Archbishop of Antium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Raffaele Cardinal Farina, S.D.B. (2006)
Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B. (1991)
Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}
Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ansbach, Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany
Ordained Bishop	Santa Maria dell’Anima, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 84709618
WikiData: Q62254

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 20 Nov 2010
b: JPG
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,862
ab (via CB): Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 103, Page 858
ab: Bollettino, 3 May 2021

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