Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli

President Emeritus of the Dicastery for Communication

Titular Archbishop of Cluentum

Note(s): (President Emeritus of Pont. Council for Social Communications)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jul 1941		Born
19 Mar 1965	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rimini, Italy
1 Dec 1990	49.3	Appointed	Under Secretary of the Secretariat of State
16 Dec 1995	54.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Cluentum
16 Dec 1995	54.4	Appointed	Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
6 Jan 1996	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Cluentum
27 Jun 2007	65.9	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
28 Feb 2013	71.6	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
16 Mar 2013	71.6	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
Mar 2016³	74.6	Resigned	President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Claudio Maria Celli
(VIAF: 95312451; WikiData: Q1033745)
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli (born 20 Jul 1941) President Emeritus of Communication

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

Please contact the Archbishop through the Dicastery for Communication.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

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 Paul Desmond Tighe (2016)
Enrico Cardinal Feroci (2020)

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

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 27 Jun 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,642
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
r: Annuario Pontificio Variazioni, Year 2016, Number 4

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