Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevičius, M.I.C. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania

Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella

Member of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Aug 1920		Born
25 Mar 1944	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
14 Nov 1957	37.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
14 Nov 1957	37.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abora
25 Dec 1957	37.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abora
1971²	50.3	Professed	Member of Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary
15 Jul 1982	61.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Kaišiadorys, Lithuania
28 Jun 1988	67.8	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Jun 1988	67.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Spirito Santo alla Ferratella
10 Mar 1989	68.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania
4 May 1996	75.7	Retired	Archbishop of Kaunas, Lithuania
28 May 2000	79.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas, Lithuania

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Vincentas Sladkevičius
(VIAF: 166808791; WikiData: Q765454)
Vincentas Cardinal Sladkevičius M.I.C. (born 20 Aug 1920, died 28 May 2000) Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas

Consistory - 1988: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Guroniai, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Ordained Bishop Birstone
Death Place Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas

a priest for 56.1 years
a bishop for 42.4 years
a cardinal for 11.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Juozapas Skvireckas †
Archbishop of Kaunas
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Bl. Teofilius Matulionis †
Bishop of Kaišiadorys

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Bl. Teofilius Matulionis † (1929)
Bishop of Kaišiadorys
Bishop Anton Malecki † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Dionysiana
Bishop Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d’Herbigny, S.J. † (1926)
Titular Bishop of Ilium
Archbishop Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Titular Archbishop of Sardes
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Jan Paweł Lenga, M.I.C. (1980)
Bishop Antoni Dziemianko (1980)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Juozas Matulaitis (1989)
Bishop Juozas Žemaitis, M.I.C. † (1989)
Sigitas Cardinal Tamkevičius, S.J. (1991)
Bishop Juozas Tunaitis † (1991)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Antanas Vaičius † (1982)
Bishop Juozas Preikšas † (1984)
Bishop Vladas Michelevičius † (1986)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Guroniai, Diocese of Kaišiadorys
Ordained Bishop	Birstone
Death Place	Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,849
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 159, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
qmic: CB, 2 Feb 2015
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1957, Number 130

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