Kurt Cardinal Koch

Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Mar 1950		Born
20 Jun 1982	32.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
21 Aug 1995	45.4	Selected	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
6 Dec 1995	45.7	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
6 Jan 1996	45.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
23 Feb 1996	45.9	Installed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
1 Jul 2010	60.2	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
1 Jul 2010	60.2	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)
20 Nov 2010	60.6	Elevated to Cardinal
20 Nov 2010	60.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
1 Jan 2011	60.7	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
28 Feb 2013	62.9	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
16 Mar 2013	63.0	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
3 May 2021	71.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
19 Mar 2022	72.0	Selected	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
5 Jun 2022	72.2	Appointed	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
21 Apr 2025	75.0	Ceased	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity
9 May 2025	75.1	Confirmed	Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

MicroData Summary
Kurt Koch
Kurt Cardinal Koch
(born 15 Mar 1950)
Prefect of Promoting Christian Unity

Consistory - 2010: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Emmenbrücke, Diocese of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
Ordained Priest St. Eusebius, Church, Grenchen
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Otto Wüst †
Titular Bishop of Tubia
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Felix Gmür (1999)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Denis Theurillat (2000)
Bishop Felix Gmür (2011)
Bishop Joseph Maria Bonnemain, Opus Dei (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bernd Joachim Uhl † (2001)
Bishop Markus Büchel (2006)
Bishop Vitus Huonder † (2007)
Archbishop Flavio Pace (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Emmenbrücke, Diocese of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
Ordained Priest	St. Eusebius, Church, Grenchen
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/280735
VIAF: 114038461
WikiData: Q45170

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 1 Jul 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,644
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
ab: Bollettino, 3 May 2021
conf: Bollettino, 9 May 2025

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