Giovanni Angelo Cardinal Becciu

Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino

Note(s): (Resigned Cardinal "rights" on 24 Sep 2020)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jun 1948		Born
27 Aug 1972	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ozieri, Italy
15 Oct 2001	53.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Rusellae
15 Oct 2001	53.3	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Angola
15 Nov 2001	53.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to São Tomé and Príncipe
1 Dec 2001	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Rusellae
23 Jul 2009	61.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba
10 May 2011	62.9	Appointed	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
28 Jun 2018	70.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino
28 Jun 2018	70.0	Elevated to Cardinal
29 Jun 2018	70.0	Resigned	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
1 Sep 2018	70.2	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
20 Jan 2019	70.6	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino
24 Sep 2020	72.3	Resigned	Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

MicroData Summary for Giovanni Angelo Becciu
(VIAF: 150151836504820400465; WikiData: Q1355058)
Giovanni Angelo Cardinal Becciu (born 2 Jun 1948) Prefect Emeritus of Causes of Saints

Consistory - 2018: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Pattada, Diocese of Ozieri, Italy
Ordained Bishop Anfiteatro 2001, Pattada, Diocese of Ozieri, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Francesco Cogoni †
Bishop of Ozieri
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paolo Romeo
Titular Archbishop of Vulturia
Bishop Sebastiano Sanguinetti
Bishop of Ozieri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Almeida Kanda (Canda) (2005)
Bishop Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás † (2009)
Bishop Antonio Mura (2014)
Bishop Corrado Melis (2015)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joaquim Ferreira Lopes, O.F.M. Cap. (2002)
Archbishop Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias (2004)
Bishop Mário Lucunde † (2005)
Bishop Manuel António Mendes dos Santos, C.M.F. (2007)
Bishop Emílio Sumbelelo (2007)
Bishop Jesús Tirso Blanco, S.D.B. † (2008)
Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba (2008)
Bishop Vicente Carlos Kiaziku, O.F.M. Cap. (2009)
Archbishop Santo Rocco Gangemi (2012)
Archbishop Luciano Russo (2012)
Miguel Ángel Cardinal Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I. (2016)
Archbishop Peter Bryan Wells (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pattada, Diocese of Ozieri, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Anfiteatro 2001, Pattada, Diocese of Ozieri, Italy

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 23 Jul 2009
ab: Bollettino, 10 May 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 165, Number 14,079
card: Bollettino, 20 May 2018
ab: Bollettino, 26 May 2018
ab: Bollettino, 28 Jun 2018
xccs: CB, 31 Aug 2018
i: Bollettino, 15 Jan 2019
r: Bollettino, 24 Sep 2020
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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