Archbishop Wiktor Paweł Skworc

Archbishop Emeritus of Katowice, Poland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 May 1948		Born
19 Apr 1973	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Katowice, Poland
13 Dec 1997	49.5	Appointed	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
6 Jan 1998	49.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
29 Oct 2011	63.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
26 Nov 2011	63.5	Installed	Archbishop of Katowice, Poland
31 May 2023	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Katowice, Poland

MicroData Summary
Wiktor Paweł Skworc
Archbishop Wiktor Paweł Skworc
(born 19 May 1948)
Archbishop Emeritus of Katowice

Ad Limina - December 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ruda Śląska
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Katowice.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Herbert Bednorz †
Bishop of Katowice
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Jorge María Mejía †
Titular Archbishop of Apollonia

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

Ordained Priest:
Father Dariusz Buras (1998)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Stanisław Budzik (2004)
Bishop Wiesław Lechowicz (2008)
Bishop Andrzej Jeż (2009)
Bishop Marek Szkudło (2015)
Bishop Adam Wodarczyk (2015)
Bishop Grzegorz Olszowski (2018)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Stefan Cichy (1998)
Archbishop Józef Piotr Kupny (2006)
Mister Janusz Wiesław Kaleta (2006)
Bishop Andrzej Iwanecki (2018)
Bishop Waldemar Musioł (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 165605063
WikiData: Q1726527

Source(s):

b/ab: Bollettino, 29 Oct 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Number 13,185
r: Bollettino, 31 May 2023

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