Bishop Jan Piotr Stepa †

Deceased

Bishop of Tarnów, Poland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Jun 1892		Born
27 Jun 1915	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
25 Mar 1946	53.7	Appointed	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
19 May 1946	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland
28 May 1959	66.9	Died	Bishop of Tarnów, Poland

MicroData Summary
Jan Piotr Stepa
Bishop Jan Piotr Stepa
(born 24 Jun 1892, died 28 May 1959)
Bishop of Tarnów

Event Place
Birth Place Sasów, Archdiocese of Lviv, Ukraine
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Tarnów, Diocese of Tarnów

a priest for 43.9 years
a bishop for 13.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Adam Stefan Cardinal Sapieha †
Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak †
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Stanislaw Rospond †
Titular Bishop of Dardanus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Adam Stefan Cardinal Sapieha † (1911)
Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Józef Gucwa † (1948)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Karol Pękala † (1947)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Kazimierz Jósef Kowalski † (1946)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 101760592
WikiData: Q1484326

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1946, Number 36
c4: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 101, Additions/Corrections (front)

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