Archbishop Traian Crisan †

Deceased

Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Titular Bishop of Drivastum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 May 1918		Born
25 Mar 1945	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cluj-Gherla (Claudiopoli-Armenopoli) (Romanian), Romania
7 Dec 1981	63.5	Appointed	Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
7 Dec 1981	63.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Drivastum
6 Jan 1982	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Drivastum
24 Feb 1990	71.7	Resigned	Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
6 Nov 1990	72.4	Died	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

MicroData Summary
Traian Crisan
Archbishop Traian Crisan
(born 21 May 1918, died 6 Nov 1990)
Secretary Emeritus of Causes of Saints

Event Place
Birth Place Iara, Eparchy of Gherla, Armenopoli, Szamos-Ujvár (Romanian), Romania
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Campo Verano, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 45.6 years
a bishop for 8.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Lucas (Luiz) Moreira Neves, O.P. †
Titular Archbishop of Feradi Maius

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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Vasile Louis Puscas † (1983)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 5387151247998444270000
WikiData: Q7832688

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 71, Number 5,688
bpd/opd/loc: CB, 10 Sep 2024

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