Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo

President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio

President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jan 1935		Born	Novara, Italy
29 Apr 1960	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Novara, Italy
3 Oct 1988	53.8	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Caesariana
3 Oct 1988	53.8	Appointed	Secretary of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
6 Jan 1989	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Caesariana
7 Dec 1995	60.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Germany
7 Oct 2003	68.8	Appointed	Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State
15 Sep 2006	71.7	Appointed	President of the Governatorate of Vatican City State
15 Sep 2006	71.7	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
24 Nov 2007	72.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio
24 Nov 2007	72.9	Elevated to Cardinal
27 Jan 2008	73.1	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria Liberatrice a Monte Testaccio

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal

Please contact the Cardinal through the Governatorate of Vatican City State.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Ugo Cardinal Poletti †
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Karol Józef Wojtyla †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy
José Tomás Cardinal Sánchez

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Cardinal Lajolo (1989)
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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop Thomas Edward Gullickson
Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Walter Mixa
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch

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