Ivan Cardinal Dias

Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1936		Born	Mumbai
8 Dec 1958	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bombay, India
8 May 1982	46.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Rusibisir
8 May 1982	46.1	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Ghana
8 May 1982	46.1	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Benin
8 May 1982	46.1	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Togo
19 Jun 1982	46.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Rusibisir
20 Jun 1987	51.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
16 Jan 1991	54.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Albania
8 Nov 1996	60.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Bombay, India
21 Feb 2001	64.9	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	64.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella
20 May 2006	70.1	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

Please contact the Cardinal through the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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Ordained Priest by:
Valerian Cardinal Gracias †
Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Achille Cardinal Silvestrini
Duraisamy Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Ivan Cardinal Dias (1982)
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
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 Consecrator of:
Oswald Cardinal Gracias
Bishop Percival Joseph Fernandez
Bishop Agnelo Rufino Gracias
Archbishop George Antonysamy
Bishop António Francisco Jaca, S.V.D.
Bishop Yves Maria Monot, C.S.Sp.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Kim Ji-seok
Bishop Godfrey de Rozario, S.J.
Archbishop James Patrick Green
Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza
Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli

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