Walter Cardinal Kasper

President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Cardinal-Priest of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1933		Born
6 Apr 1957	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
17 Apr 1989	56.1	Appointed	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
17 Jun 1989	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
16 Mar 1999	66.0	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
31 May 1999	66.2	Resigned	Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
21 Feb 2001	67.9	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	67.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova
3 Mar 2001	67.9	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
25 Mar 2001	68.0	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova
2 Apr 2005	72.0	Ceased	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
21 Apr 2005	72.1	Confirmed	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
1 Jul 2010	77.3	Retired	President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
21 Feb 2011	77.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Ognissanti in Via Appia Nuova

MicroData Summary
Walter Kasper
Walter Cardinal Kasper
(born 5 Mar 1933)
President Emeritus of Promoting Christian Unity

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Heidenheim/Brenz, Diocese of Rottenburg, Germany
Ordained Bishop S. Michel, Church, Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

Please contact the Cardinal through the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht †
Bishop of Rottenburg
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Lehmann †
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle †
Titular Bishop of Sorres

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Oskar Saier † (1972)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Kreidler (1991)
Bishop Thomas Maria Renz (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Joseph Pierre Aimé Marie Doré, P.S.S. (1997)
Bishop Gebhard Fürst (2000)
Bishop Johan Jozef Bonny (2009)
Bishop Klaus Matthias Krämer (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Heidenheim/Brenz, Diocese of Rottenburg, Germany
Ordained Bishop	S. Michel, Church, Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

External Link(s):

VIAF: 103197552
WikiData: Q44100

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 1 Jul 2010
ab: Bollettino, 21 Feb 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 116, Number 10,349

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