Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

Patron Emeritus of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agata de’ Goti

Motto: Secundum Cor Tuum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1948		Born
29 Jun 1975	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
10 Dec 1994	46.4	Appointed	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
6 Jan 1995	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
22 Feb 1995	46.6	Installed	Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
2 Dec 2003	55.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
26 Jan 2004	55.5	Installed	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
27 Jun 2008	59.9	Appointed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
20 Nov 2010	62.3	Elevated to Cardinal
20 Nov 2010	62.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Agata de’ Goti
5 Feb 2011	62.5	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Agata de’ Goti
28 Feb 2013	64.6	Ceased	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
16 Mar 2013	64.7	Confirmed	Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
8 Nov 2014	66.3	Appointed	Patron of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
2 Feb 2017	68.5	Removed	Patron of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta
3 May 2021	72.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agata de’ Goti

MicroData Summary
Raymond Leo Burke
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke
(born 30 Jun 1948)
Patron Emeritus of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta

Ad Limina - November 2004: Bishop
Consistory - 2010: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Richland Center, Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Ordained Priest Saint Peter's Square, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Robert William Finn (2004)
Bishop James Vann Johnston, Jr. (2008)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Richard Cote (1995)
Daniel Nicholas Cardinal DiNardo (1997)
Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone (2002)
Bishop Kevin William Vann (2005)
Archbishop Philip Tartaglia † (2005)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Richland Center, Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Ordained Priest	Saint Peter's Square, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 35927306
WikiData: Q515887

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 27 Jun 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 140, Number 12,460
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
ab: Bollettino, 8 Nov 2014
ab: Bollettino, 3 May 2021
op.loc: CB, 26 Oct 2022

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