Bishop Jan Baxant

Bishop Emeritus of Litoměřice, Czechia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Oct 1948		Born
23 Jun 1973	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
4 Oct 2008	59.9	Appointed	Bishop of Litoměřice, Czechia
22 Nov 2008	60.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Litoměřice, Czechia
23 Dec 2023	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Litoměřice, Czechia

MicroData Summary
Jan Baxant
Bishop Jan Baxant
(born 8 Oct 1948)
Bishop Emeritus of Litoměřice

Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2021 (Czech Republic): Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Karlovy Vary, Archdiocese of Praha {Prague}
Ordained Bishop Saint Étienne, Cathedral, Litoměřice, Diocese of Litoměřice

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Litoměřice.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop František Tomášek †
Titular Bishop of Butus
Principal Consecrator:
Miloslav Cardinal Vlk †
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Diego Causero †
Titular Archbishop of Gradum
Bishop Jiří Paďour, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Miloslav Cardinal Vlk † (1990)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Bishop Antonín Liška, C.Ss.R. † (1988)
Titular Bishop of Vergi
František Cardinal Tomášek † (1949)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha † (1948)
Archbishop of Olomouc
Archbishop Josef Beran † (1946)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Archbishop Saverio Ritter † (1935)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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:
Archbishop Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R. (2024)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 85883775
WikiData: Q1681600

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 4 Oct 2008
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Number 15,989
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 23 Dec 2023

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