Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami

Motto: Iustus Ut Palma Florebit

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Mar 1938		Born
28 Jun 1962	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Milano {Milan}, Italy
8 Apr 1993	55.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Milano {Milan}, Italy
8 Apr 1993	55.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Coeliana
22 May 1993	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Coeliana
15 Feb 2007	68.9	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
15 Feb 2007	68.9	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Coeliana
18 Feb 2012	73.9	Elevated to Cardinal
18 Feb 2012	73.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami
26 Apr 2012	74.1	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami
28 Feb 2013	74.9	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
16 Mar 2013	75.0	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
7 Apr 2018	80.0	Retired	President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
4 Mar 2022	83.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami

MicroData Summary
Francesco Coccopalmerio
Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio
(born 6 Mar 1938)
President Emeritus of Legislative Texts

Ad Limina - February 2007: Bishop
Consistory - February 2012: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place San Giuliano Milanese, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Priest Sant'Ambrogio, Cathedral Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Sant'Ambrogio, Cathedral Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.

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Ordained Priest by:
St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Cardinal Montini †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Consecrator:
Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, S.J. †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Attilio Nicora †
Bishop of Verona
Bishop Giovanni Giudici †
Titular Bishop of Usula

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini, S.J. † (1980)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
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:
Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli (2004)
Bishop Luigi Stucchi † (2004)
Bishop Franco Giulio Brambilla (2007)
Archbishop Mario Enrico Delpini (2007)
Archbishop Léon Kalenga Badikebele † (2008)
Archbishop Frans Daneels, O. Praem. (2008)
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru (2008)
Archbishop Bernard Anthony Hebda (2009)
Bishop Marco Salvi (2019)
Archbishop Samuele Sangalli (2025)
Bishop Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella, M. Afr. (2025)

Event	Place
Birth Place	San Giuliano Milanese, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Priest	Sant'Ambrogio, Cathedral Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Sant'Ambrogio, Cathedral Basilica, Milano, Archdiocese of Milano {Milan}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/362011
VIAF: 265128748
WikiData: Q720642

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 15 Feb 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 135, Number 12,111
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,156
card: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2012
1g29: Bollettino, 18 Feb 2012
i: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2012
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Deceased Cardinals (back)
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
loc: AM, 12 Mar 2018
r: Bollettino, 7 Apr 2018
cpri: Bollettino, 4 Mar 2022

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