Giovanni Cardinal Coppa †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino

Motto: Sobria Ebrietas Spiritus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Nov 1925		Born
2 Jan 1949	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Alba (Pompea), Italy
1 Dec 1979	54.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Serta
1 Dec 1979	54.0	Appointed	Official of the Secretariat of State
6 Jan 1980	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Serta
30 Jun 1990	64.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czechoslovakia
1 Jan 1993	67.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
1 Jan 1993	67.1	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
2 Mar 1994	68.3	Resigned	Apostolic Nuncio to Slovakia
19 May 2001	75.5	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Czech Republic
24 Nov 2007	82.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino
24 Nov 2007	82.0	Elevated to Cardinal
27 Jan 2008	82.2	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Lino
16 May 2016	90.5	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary
Giovanni Coppa
Giovanni Cardinal Coppa
(born 9 Nov 1925, died 16 May 2016)
Apostolic Nuncio

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal (Non-Voting)
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Alba, Diocese of Alba (Pompea), Italy
Ordained Priest Torino, Archdiocese of Torino {Turin}, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Villa Luisa clinic, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Vatican Chapter Chapel, Campo Verano, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 67.3 years
a bishop for 36.3 years
a cardinal for 8.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Francesco Bottino †
Titular Bishop of Sebaste in Palaestina
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Bishop Ferdinando Maggioni †
Titular Bishop of Subaugusta

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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop František Rábek (1991)
Bishop Milan Chautur, C.Ss.R. (1992)
Bishop Andrej Imrich (1992)
Bishop Josef Kajnek (1992)
Bishop Ivan Ljavinec † (1996)
Bishop Jiří Paďour, O.F.M. Cap. † (1997)
Bishop Václav Malý (1997)
Dominik Jaroslav Cardinal Duka, O.P. (1998)
Bishop Petr Esterka † (1999)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Alba, Diocese of Alba (Pompea), Italy
Ordained Priest	Torino, Archdiocese of Torino {Turin}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Villa Luisa clinic, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Vatican Chapter Chapel, Campo Verano, Cemetery, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/112451
VIAF: 51915846
WikiData: Q573228

Source(s):

i: Bollettino, 22 Jan 2008
d: CB, 17 May 2016
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 228, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 58, Number 4,327
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 24 Nov 2007

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