Karl-Josef Cardinal Rauber †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium

Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Apr 1934		Born
28 Feb 1959	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mainz, Germany
18 Dec 1982	48.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Iubaltiana
18 Dec 1982	48.6	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Uganda
6 Jan 1983	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Iubaltiana
22 Jan 1990	55.7	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
16 Mar 1993	58.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland
16 Mar 1993	58.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Liechtenstein
25 Apr 1997	63.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary
25 Apr 1997	63.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Moldova, Republic of
22 Feb 2003	68.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
22 Feb 2003	68.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg
18 Jun 2009	75.1	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium
24 Jul 2009	75.2	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Luxembourg
14 Feb 2015	80.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
14 Feb 2015	80.8	Elevated to Cardinal
13 Jun 2015	81.1	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
26 Mar 2023	88.9	Died	Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Belgium

MicroData Summary for Karl-Josef Rauber
(VIAF: 122274911; WikiData: Q76375)
Karl-Josef Cardinal Rauber (born 11 Apr 1934, died 26 Mar 2023) Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus of Belgium

Consistory - 2015: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)

Event Place
Birth Place Nürnberg, Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
Buried Place (Original) Campo Santo Teutonico, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 64.0 years
a bishop for 40.2 years
a cardinal for 8.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Albert Stohr †
Bishop of Mainz
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

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 Giuseppe Torti † (1995)
Bishop Werner Guballa † (2003)
Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr (2003)
Bishop Udo Markus Bentz (2015)
Bishop Peter Birkhofer (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Nürnberg, Archdiocese of Bamberg, Germany
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
Buried Place (Original)	Campo Santo Teutonico, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

c: Bollettino, 4 Jan 2015
ab: Bollettino, 14 Feb 2015
i: Bollettino, 9 Jun 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 77, Number 6,240
d: CB, 27 Mar 2023

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