Bishop Petru Gherghel

Bishop Emeritus of Iaşi, Romania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jun 1940		Born
29 Jun 1965	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Iaşi, Romania
14 Mar 1990	49.7	Appointed	Bishop of Iaşi, Romania
1 May 1990	49.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Iaşi, Romania
6 Jul 2019	79.0	Retired	Bishop of Iaşi, Romania

MicroData Summary for Petru Gherghel
(WikiData: Q558372)
Bishop Petru Gherghel (born 28 Jun 1940) Bishop Emeritus of Iaşi

Ad Limina - February 2010: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gherăești-Neamț, Diocese of Iaşi
Ordained Priest Alba Iulia, Diocese of Alba Iulia
Ordained Bishop Iaşi, Diocese of Iaşi

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Iaşi.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Áron Márton †
Bishop of Alba Iulia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Angelo Sodano †
Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ioan Robu
Archbishop of Bucarest {Bucureşti}
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann †
Bishop of Münster

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Angelo Sodano † (1978)
Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Archbishop Aurel Percă (1999)
Bishop Iosif Păuleţ (2019)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Cornel Damian (2003)
Bishop Petru Sescu (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Gherăești-Neamț, Diocese of Iaşi
Ordained Priest	Alba Iulia, Diocese of Alba Iulia
Ordained Bishop	Iaşi, Diocese of Iaşi

Source(s):

ob/c23: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 121, Number 10,874
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 122, Number 10,966
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
r: Bollettino, 6 Jul 2019
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)
c1/loc: CB, 22 Aug 2024

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