Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera

Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia, Spain

Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Oct 1945		Born
21 Jun 1970	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Valencia, Spain
6 Mar 1992	46.3	Appointed	Bishop of Ávila, Spain
25 Apr 1992	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ávila, Spain
10 Dec 1996	51.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Granada, Spain
1 Feb 1997	51.2	Installed	Archbishop of Granada, Spain
Feb 1998³	52.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Cartagena (en España)
Oct 1998³	52.9	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Cartagena (en España)
24 Oct 2002	57.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
15 Dec 2002	57.1	Installed	Archbishop of Toledo, Spain
24 Mar 2006	60.4	Elevated to Cardinal
24 Mar 2006	60.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
21 May 2006	60.5	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
9 Dec 2008	63.1	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
9 Dec 2008	63.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Toledo, Spain
21 Jun 2009	63.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Toledo, Spain
28 Feb 2013	67.3	Ceased	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
16 Mar 2013	67.4	Confirmed	Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
28 Aug 2014	68.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
4 Oct 2014	68.9	Installed	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
10 Oct 2022	76.9	Retired	Archbishop of Valencia, Spain
10 Oct 2022	76.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Valencia, Spain
10 Dec 2022	77.1	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Valencia, Spain

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Antonio Cañizares Llovera
Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera
(born 15 Oct 1945)
Archbishop Emeritus of Valencia

Ad Limina - January 2005: Bishop
Consistory - 2006: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Conclave - 2025: Unable to Participate

Event Place
Birth Place Utiel, Archdiocese of Valencia
Ordained Priest Sinarcas, Archdiocese of Valencia
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Ávila, Diocese of Ávila

Please contact the Cardinal through the Archdiocese of Valencia.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop José María García Lahiguera †
Archbishop of Valencia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri †
Titular Archbishop of Formiae
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea †
Archbishop of Madrid
Marcelo Cardinal González Martín †
Archbishop of Toledo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Mario Tagliaferri † (1970)
Titular Archbishop of Formiae
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot † (1954)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Maurice Cardinal Feltin † (1928)
Archbishop of Paris
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Binet † (1920)
Archbishop of Besançon
Louis-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Luçon † (1888)
Archbishop of Reims
Bishop Charles-Emile Freppel † (1870)
Bishop of Angers
François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet † (1835)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Gustave-Maximilien-Juste de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop of Rouen
Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790)
Archbishop of Reims
Archbishop Antonio Dugnani † (1785)
Titular Archbishop of Rhodus
Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico (Jr.) † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Ángel Rubio Castro (2004)
Bishop José María Yanguas Sanz (2006)
Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea (2006)
Bishop Arturo Pablo Ros Murgadas (2016)
Bishop Francisco Simón Conesa Ferrer (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Adolfo González Montes (1997)
Bishop Alfonso Milián Sorribas † (2000)
Archbishop Josep Ángel Saiz Meneses (2001)
Bishop Gregorio Martínez Sacristán † (2007)
Bishop Domingo Oropesa Lorente (2007)
Bishop Julián Ruiz Martorell (2011)
Bishop José Luis Del Palacio y Pérez-Medel (2012)
Bishop Ángel Fernández Collado (2013)
Archbishop Santiago De Wit Guzmán (2017)
Bishop Sebastián Chico Martínez (2019)
Bishop Vicente Ribas Prats (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Utiel, Archdiocese of Valencia
Ordained Priest	Sinarcas, Archdiocese of Valencia
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Ávila, Diocese of Ávila

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/324863
VIAF: 31731991
WikiData: Q382332

Source(s):

i: Bollettino, 12 May 2006
ab: Bollettino, 9 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 130, Number 11,668
c: Bollettino, 16 Mar 2013
ab: Bollettino, 28 Aug 2014
i: CB, 29 Aug 2014
aadm/i/loc: AM, 4 Sep 2018
r: Bollettino, 10 Oct 2022
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 24 Mar 2006

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