Audrys Juozas Cardinal Bačkis

Archbishop Emeritus of Vilnius, Lithuania

Cardinal-Priest of Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Feb 1937		Born
18 Mar 1961	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kaunas, Lithuania
5 Aug 1988	51.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Meta
5 Aug 1988	51.5	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Netherlands
4 Oct 1988	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Meta
24 Dec 1991	54.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
3 Mar 1992	55.0	Installed	Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
21 Feb 2001	64.0	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	64.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia
5 Apr 2013	76.1	Retired	Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania

MicroData Summary
Audrys Juozas Bačkis
Audrys Juozas Cardinal Bačkis
(born 1 Feb 1937)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vilnius

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - June 2006: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - February 2015: Bishop

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

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Vilnius.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Luigi Cardinal Traglia †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Andrea della Valle
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Achille Cardinal Silvestrini †
Cardinal-Deacon of San Benedetto fuori Porta San Paolo
Bishop Juozas Preikšas †
Titular Bishop of Egnatia

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:
Archbishop Gintaras Linas Grušas (1994)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jonas Algimantas Boruta, S.J. † (1997)
Bishop Arūnas Poniškaitis (2010)
Archbishop Gintaras Linas Grušas (2010)
Bishop Linas (Genadijus) Vodopjanovas, O.F.M. (2012)
Archbishop Lionginas Virbalas, S.J. (2013)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Eugenijus Bartulis (1997)
Bishop Rimantas Norvila (1997)
Bishop Darius Trijonis (2017)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 88105973
WikiData: Q458569

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 111, Number 9,819
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
r: Bollettino, 5 Apr 2013

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