Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.

Secretary Emeritus of the Secretariat of State

Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati

Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}

Motto: Fides Custodiare Concordiam Servare

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1934		Born
3 Dec 1950	16.0	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
1 Jul 1960	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
4 Jun 1991	56.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Vercelli, Italy
1 Aug 1991	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Vercelli, Italy
13 Jun 1995	60.5	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
10 Dec 2002	68.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
2 Feb 2003	68.1	Installed	Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
21 Oct 2003	68.8	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Oct 2003	68.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Auxiliatrice in via Tuscolana
24 Mar 2004	69.3	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Auxiliatrice in via Tuscolana
29 Aug 2006	71.7	Resigned	Archbishop of Genova {Genoa}, Italy
15 Sep 2006	71.7	Appointed	Secretary of State
4 Apr 2007	72.3	Appointed	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
10 May 2008	73.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
3 Oct 2009	74.8	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
28 Feb 2013	78.2	Ceased	Secretary of State
16 Mar 2013	78.2	Confirmed	Secretary of State
15 Oct 2013	78.8	Retired	Secretary of State
20 Dec 2014	80.0	Retired	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber

MicroData Summary
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone S.D.B.
(born 2 Dec 1934)
Secretary Emeritus of State

Consistory - 2003: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Participated; Camerlengo (Chamberlain)
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Romano Canavese, Diocese of Ivrea, Italy
Ordained Priest Ivrea, Diocese of Ivrea, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Vercelli, Archdiocese of Vercelli, Italy

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Albino Mensa †
Bishop of Ivrea
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Albino Mensa †
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Luigi Bettazzi †
Bishop of Ivrea
Bishop Carlo Cavalla †
Bishop of Casale Monferrato

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Cristiano Bodo (1993)
Father Mauro Mantovani, S.D.B. (1994)
Principal Consecrator of:
Mauro Cardinal Piacenza (2003)
Bishop Luigi Ernesto Palletti (2005)
Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv. (2006)
Bishop Antoni Stankiewicz † (2006)
Raffaele Cardinal Farina, S.D.B. (2006)
Bishop Carlo Chenis, S.D.B. † (2007)
Archbishop Leo Boccardi (2007)
Archbishop Vincenzo Bertolone, S.d.P. (2007)
Archbishop Michele Di Ruberto † (2007)
Bishop Gaetano Galbusera Fumagalli, S.D.B. (2007)
Archbishop Vito Rallo (2007)
Bishop Gianni Ambrosio (2008)
Archbishop Luciano Suriani (2008)
Archbishop Léon Kalenga Badikebele † (2008)
Archbishop Frans Daneels, O. Praem. (2008)
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (2008)
Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendía (2008)
Bishop Paolo De Nicolò (2008)
Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza (2008)
Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli (2008)
Luis Francisco Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (2008)
Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico (2008)
Archbishop Martin Krebs (2008)
Archbishop Luigi Bianco (2009)
Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawłowski (2009)
Archbishop Joseph Spiteri (2009)
Bishop Mario Toso, S.D.B. (2009)
Bishop Jean Clément Marie Gérard Joseph Françoise Georges Laffitte, Comm. l'Emm. (2009)
Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole, F.D.P. (2009)
Archbishop Petar Antun Rajič (2010)
Archbishop Piero Pioppo (2010)
Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa † (2010)
Archbishop Eugene Martin Nugent (2010)
Bishop Valentino Di Cerbo (2010)
Joseph William Cardinal Tobin, C.Ss.R. (2010)
Archbishop Giorgio Lingua (2010)
Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula (2010)
Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, S.D.B. (2010)
Bishop Mauro Maria Morfino, S.D.B. (2011)
Bishop Jan Vokál (2011)
Bishop Giuseppe Sciacca (2011)
Bishop Barthélemy Adoukonou † (2011)
Bishop Francesco Cavina (2012)
Archbishop Julio Murat (2012)
Archbishop Luciano Russo (2012)
Bishop Edoardo Aldo Cerrato, C.O. (2012)
Archbishop Guido Pozzo (2012)
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero (2013)
Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach (2013)
Archbishop Brian Ngozi Udaigwe (2013)
Archbishop José Rodríguez Carballo, O.F.M. (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Vincenzo Savio, S.D.B. † (1993)
Bishop Adrianus Herman van Luyn, S.D.B. (1994)
Bishop Luigi Locati † (1996)
Bishop Fernando Sabogal Viana † (1996)
Archbishop José Octavio Ruiz Arenas (1996)
Archbishop Oscar Urbina Ortega (1996)
Bishop Jozef Zlatňanský † (1997)
Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki (2007)
Archbishop Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro (2007)
Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi (2007)
Archbishop Tommaso Caputo (2007)
Bishop Sergio Pagano, B. (2007)
Archbishop Vincenzo Di Mauro (2007)
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia (2009)
Archbishop Franco Coppola (2009)
Pietro Cardinal Parolin (2009)
Bishop Raffaello Martinelli (2009)
Bishop Giorgio Corbellini † (2009)
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B. (2011)
Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci (2011)
Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta (2011)
Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi (2011)
Archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra (2011)
Archbishop Charles John Brown (2012)
Archbishop Marek Solczyński (2012)
Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani (2013)
Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu (2013)
Archbishop Georg Gänswein (2013)
Archbishop Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin (2013)
Bishop Alberto Ricardo Lorenzelli Rossi, S.D.B. (2019)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Romano Canavese, Diocese of Ivrea, Italy
Ordained Priest	Ivrea, Diocese of Ivrea, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Vercelli, Archdiocese of Vercelli, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/179363
VIAF: 88563699
WikiData: Q44383

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 22 Jun 2006
ab: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2007
ab: Bollettino, 10 May 2008
i: Bollettino, 1 Oct 2009
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127, Number 11,459
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
r: Bollettino, 31 Aug 2013
r: Bollettino, 20 Dec 2014

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