Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell

Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life

Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire

Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber

President of the Pontifical Committee for Investments

President of the Pontifical Commission for Confidential Matters

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1947		Born
24 Dec 1978	31.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ
1984²	36.3	Incardinated	Priest of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
28 Dec 2001	54.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
28 Dec 2001	54.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru
11 Feb 2002	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rusuccuru
6 Mar 2007	59.5	Appointed	Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
1 May 2007	59.6	Installed	Bishop of Dallas, Texas, USA
15 Aug 2016	68.9	Appointed	Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life
19 Nov 2016	69.2	Elevated to Cardinal
19 Nov 2016	69.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire
29 Jan 2017	69.4	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire
14 Feb 2019	71.4	Appointed	Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
29 Sep 2020	73.0	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Commission for Confidential Matters
7 Jun 2022	74.7	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Committee for Investments

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Kevin Joseph Farrell
(VIAF: 114879044; WikiData: Q1740146)
Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell (born 2 Sep 1947) Prefect of Laity, the Family and Life

Event Place
Birth Place Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Ordained Priest Our Lady of Guadalupe, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Basilica, Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Please contact the Cardinal through the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bl. Eduardo Francisco Cardinal Pironio †
Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Cosma e Damiano
Principal Consecrator:
Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey †
Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia
Bishop Leonard James Olivier, S.V.D. †
Titular Bishop of Legia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick (1977)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop John Douglas Deshotel (2010)
Bishop Mark Joseph Seitz (2010)
Bishop John Gregory Kelly (2016)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Gerard Duca (2008)

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 6 Mar 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 166, Number 14,134
ab: Bollettino, 17 Aug 2016
card: Bollettino, 9 Oct 2016
i: Bollettino, 24 Jan 2017
b: Bollettino, 14 Feb 2019
ab: Bollettino, 7 Jun 2022
ab: Bollettino, 5 Oct 2020

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