Ernesto Cardinal Civardi †

Deceased

Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops

Cardinal-Deacon of San Teodoro

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Oct 1906		Born
29 Jun 1930	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pavia, Italy
17 May 1967	60.5	Appointed	Secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation
26 Jun 1967	60.6	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Serdica
16 Jul 1967	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Serdica
30 Jun 1979	72.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Teodoro
30 Jun 1979	72.6	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Jun 1979	72.6	Resigned	Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops
28 Nov 1989	83.1	Died	Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops

MicroData Summary
Ernesto Civardi
Ernesto Cardinal Civardi
(born 21 Oct 1906, died 28 Nov 1989)
Secretary Emeritus of Bishops

Consistory - 1979: Created Cardinal

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

a priest for 59.4 years
a bishop for 22.3 years
a cardinal for 10.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Augusto Gianfranceschi †
Bishop of Cesena
Bishop Jacques-Paul Martin †
Titular Bishop of Neapolis in Palaestina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ferdinando Maggioni † (1967)
Archbishop Raymond Philip Etteldorf † (1969)
Archbishop Antonio Maria Travia † (1969)
Bishop Matthieu Kanyama † (1969)
Bishop Sabás Magaña García † (1969)
Bishop Abel Costas Montaño † (1969)
Archbishop Eugène-Marie Ernoult † (1969)
Bishop Adhemar Esquivel Kohenque † (1969)
Bishop Thomas Benjamin Fulton † (1969)
Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlin † (1969)
Bishop André Bernard Michel Quélen † (1969)
Bishop Andrés Bernardo (Andrew Bernard) Schierhoff † (1969)
Archbishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus † (1969)
Bishop Umberto Florenzani † (1973)
Bishop Paolo Magnani † (1977)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 5711151247999844270009
WikiData: Q1334047

Source(s):

ob/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 118
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

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