Archbishop Alojz Tkáč †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Košice, Slovakia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Mar 1934		Born
25 Jun 1961	27.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Košice, Slovakia
14 Feb 1990	55.9	Appointed	Bishop of Košice, Slovakia
17 Mar 1990	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Košice, Slovakia
31 Mar 1995	61.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Košice, Slovakia
4 Jun 2010	76.2	Retired	Archbishop of Košice, Slovakia
23 May 2023	89.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Košice, Slovakia

MicroData Summary
Alojz Tkáč
Archbishop Alojz Tkáč
(born 2 Mar 1934, died 23 May 2023)
Archbishop Emeritus of Košice

Ad Limina - June 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ohradzany, Diocese of Košice
Ordained Priest St. Martin, Church, Bratislava
Ordained Bishop Stadium, Košice, Archdiocese of Košice
Death Place Košice, Archdiocese of Košice

a priest for 61.9 years
a bishop for 33.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Ambróz Lazík †
Titular Bishop of Appia
Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ján Sokol
Archbishop of Trnava
Bishop Ján Chryzostom Korec, S.J. †
Bishop of Nitra

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
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:
Bishop Stanislav Stolárik (2004)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Bernard Bober (1993)
Bishop Štefan Sečka † (2002)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 306402583
WikiData: Q138727

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 4 Jun 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 121, Number 10,859
d/c1: CB, 23 May 2023

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