Giovanni Cardinal Coppa

Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Czech Republic

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lino

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Nov 1925		Born	Alba, Italy
2 Jan 1949	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
1 Dec 1979	54.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Serta
1 Dec 1979	54.1	Appointed	Official of the Secretariat of State
6 Jan 1980	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Serta
30 Jun 1990	64.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czechoslovakia
1 Jan 1993	67.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
1 Jan 1993	67.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
2 Mar 1994	68.3	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
19 May 2001	75.5	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
24 Nov 2007	82.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lino
24 Nov 2007	82.0	Elevated to Cardinal
27 Jan 2008	82.2	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Lino

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Please contact the Cardinal through the Nunciature to Czech Republic.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Eduardo Cardinal Martínez Somalo
Bishop Ferdinando Maggioni †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Cardinal Coppa (1980)
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla † (1958)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop František Rábek
Bishop Milan Chautur, C.SS.R.
Bishop Andrej Imrich
Bishop Josef Kajnek
Bishop Ivan Ljavinec
Bishop Jirí Padour, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop Václav Maly
Bishop Dominik Duka, O.P.
Bishop Petr Esterka

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