Fernando Cardinal Filoni

Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

Cardinal-Bishop of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio

Motto: Lumen Gentium Christus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Apr 1946		Born
3 Jul 1970	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nardò, Italy
17 Jan 2001	54.7	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Volturnum
17 Jan 2001	54.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq
17 Jan 2001	54.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan
19 Mar 2001	54.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Volturnum
25 Feb 2006	59.8	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Philippines
9 Jun 2007	61.1	Appointed	Substitute (Sostituto) of the Secretariat of State
10 May 2011	65.0	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
18 Feb 2012	65.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio
18 Feb 2012	65.8	Elevated to Cardinal
26 Feb 2012	65.8	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio
28 Feb 2013	66.8	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
16 Mar 2013	66.9	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
28 Jun 2018	72.2	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio
8 Dec 2019	73.6	Appointed	Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

MicroData Summary
Fernando Filoni
Fernando Cardinal Filoni
(born 15 Apr 1946)
Grand Master of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

Consistory - February 2012: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Manduria, Diocese of Oria, Italy
Ordained Priest Collegiata dell'Assunta, Shrine, Galatone, Diocese of Nardò, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Antonio Rosario Mennonna †
Bishop of Nardò
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Angelo Cardinal Sodano †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli

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:
Archbishop Ricardo Lingan Baccay (2007)
Dieudonné Cardinal Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. (2012)
Bishop Dennis Kofi Agbenyadzi, S.M.A. (2012)
Bishop Nestor-Désiré Nongo-Aziagbia, S.M.A. (2012)
Bishop Cyr-Nestor Yapaupa (2012)
Archbishop Joseph Arshad (2013)
Bishop Raúl Alfonso Carrillo Martínez (2016)
Bishop Jaime Uriel Sanabria Arias (2016)
Bishop Miguel Angel Nguema Bee, S.D.B. (2017)
Bishop Calixto Paulino Esono Abaga Obono (2017)
Bishop Juan Domingo-Beka Esono Ayang, C.M.F. (2017)
Archbishop Tadeusz Wojda, S.A.C. (2017)
Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Francisco Montecillo Padilla (2006)
Bishop Broderick Soncuaco Pabillo (2006)
Bishop Leopoldo Corpuz Jaucian, S.V.D. (2007)
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero (2013)
Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach (2013)
Archbishop Brian Ngozi Udaigwe (2013)
Miguel Ángel Cardinal Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I. † (2016)
Archbishop Peter Bryan Wells (2016)
Archbishop Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (2018)
Archbishop Alfred Xuereb (2018)
Archbishop José Avelino Bettencourt (2018)
Archbishop Gianfranco Gallone (2019)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Manduria, Diocese of Oria, Italy
Ordained Priest	Collegiata dell'Assunta, Shrine, Galatone, Diocese of Nardò, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/319707
VIAF: 78798798
WikiData: Q680013

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 25 Feb 2006
ab: Bollettino, 9 Jun 2007
ab: Bollettino, 10 May 2011
card: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2012
1n02: Bollettino, 18 Feb 2012
i: Bollettino, 23 Feb 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,934
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
ab: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2018
loc: AM, 10 Feb 2019
ab: Bollettino, 8 Dec 2019

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