Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, O.F.M.

Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine

Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Apr 1965		Born
5 Sep 1984	19.3	Entered	Member of Order of Friars Minor
7 Sep 1985	20.3	Temporary Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor
14 Oct 1989	24.4	Perpetual Vows	Member of Order of Friars Minor
27 Jan 1990	24.7	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Friars Minor
15 Sep 1990	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor
24 Jun 2016	51.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
24 Jun 2016	51.1	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Verbe
15 Jul 2016	51.2	Installed	Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
10 Sep 2016	51.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Verbe
24 Oct 2020	55.5	Appointed	Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
6 Nov 2020	55.5	Installed	Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
30 Sep 2023	58.4	Elevated to Cardinal
30 Sep 2023	58.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
1 May 2024	59.0	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio

MicroData Summary
Pierbattista Pizzaballa
Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa O.F.M.
(born 21 Apr 1965)
Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}

Ad Limina - March 2018: Bishop
Consistory - 2023: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Cologno al Serio, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Bologona, Archdiocese of Bologna, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Alessandro, Cathedral, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

Please contact the Cardinal through the Patriarchate of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}.

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

Ordained Priest by:
Giacomo Cardinal Biffi †
Archbishop of Bologna
Principal Consecrator:
Leonardo Cardinal Sandri
Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Patriarch Fouad Boutros Twal
Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Bishop Francesco Beschi
Bishop of Bergamo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Leonardo Cardinal Sandri (1997)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
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 Rafic Nahra (2022)
Bishop Jamal Boulos Sleiman Daibes (2022)
Bishop Bruno Varriano, O.F.M. (2024)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Claudio Lurati, M.C.C.I. (2020)
Bishop Hanna Jallouf, O.F.M. (2023)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Cologno al Serio, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy
Ordained Priest	Cathedral, Bologona, Archdiocese of Bologna, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Alessandro, Cathedral, Bergamo, Diocese of Bergamo, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 232666295
WikiData: Q2092723

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 Jun 2016
ob: CB, 24 Jun 2016
i: CB, 2 Aug 2016
c2: CB, 16 Aug 2016
c34: CB, 25 Aug 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 229, Number 19,099
bpd: AM, 8 Jul 2019
ab: Bollettino, 24 Oct 2020
i: AM, 5 Apr 2021
card: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2023
cpri: Bollettino, 30 Sep 2023
od.loc: AK, 26 Nov 2023
i: Bollettino, 9 Apr 2024
~i: Bollettino, 15 Apr 2024
i: Bollettino, 29 Apr 2024

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