Angelo Cardinal Sodano †

Deceased

Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals

Cardinal-Bishop of Albano

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Nov 1927		Born
23 Sep 1950	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Asti, Italy
30 Nov 1977	50.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
30 Nov 1977	50.0	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Chile
15 Jan 1978	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Nova Caesaris
23 May 1988	60.5	Appointed	Secretary of the Roman Curia - Other
1 Mar 1989	61.2	Appointed	Secretary (Relations with States) of the Secretariat of State
1 Dec 1990	63.0	Appointed	Pro-Secretary of the Secretariat of State
28 Jun 1991	63.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
28 Jun 1991	63.5	Elevated to Cardinal
29 Jun 1991	63.5	Appointed	Secretary of State
10 Jan 1994	66.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
2 Oct 1994	66.8	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
27 Nov 2002	75.0	Elected	Vice-Dean (Sub-Dean) of the College of Cardinals
30 Nov 2002	75.0	Confirmed	Vice-Dean (Sub-Dean) of the College of Cardinals
2 Apr 2005	77.3	Ceased	Secretary of State
21 Apr 2005	77.4	Confirmed	Secretary of State
27 Apr 2005	77.4	Elected	Dean of the College of Cardinals
30 Apr 2005	77.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
30 Apr 2005	77.4	Confirmed	Dean of the College of Cardinals
10 Jul 2005	77.6	Installed	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
15 Sep 2006	78.8	Retired	Secretary of State
21 Dec 2019	92.0	Ceased	Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia
21 Dec 2019	92.0	Retired	Dean of the College of Cardinals
27 May 2022	94.5	Died	Dean Emeritus of the College of Cardinals

MicroData Summary
Angelo Sodano
Angelo Cardinal Sodano
(born 23 Nov 1927, died 27 May 2022)
Dean Emeritus of College of Cardinals

Consistory - 1991: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated; Vice-Dean
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age); Dean

Event Place
Birth Place Isola d'Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Ordained Priest Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Ordained Bishop S. Secondo, Cathedral, Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 71.6 years
a bishop for 44.3 years
a cardinal for 30.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Umberto Rossi †
Bishop of Asti
Principal Consecrator:
Antonio Cardinal Samorè †
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agostino Casaroli †
Titular Archbishop of Cartagine
Bishop Vito Nicola Cavanna †
Bishop of Asti

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Juan Bautista Herrada Armijo, O. de M. † (1982)
Bishop Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz, SS.CC. † (1984)
Bishop Sebastian Kräuter † (1990)
Bishop Petru Gherghel (1990)
Archbishop Mario Rizzi † (1991)
Lorenzo Cardinal Baldisseri (1992)
Archbishop Adriano Bernardini (1992)
Archbishop André Pierre Louis Dupuy (1993)
Archbishop Domenico De Luca † (1993)
Archbishop Renzo Fratini (1993)
Archbishop Francisco-Javier Lozano Sebastián (1994)
Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto (1994)
Archbishop Luigi Ventura (1995)
Archbishop Juliusz Janusz (1995)
Christophe Louis Yves Georges Cardinal Pierre (1995)
Archbishop Antonio Sozzo (1995)
Archbishop Antonio Lucibello (1995)
Archbishop Gianni Danzi † (1996)
Emil Paul Cardinal Tscherrig (1996)
Silvano Maria Cardinal Tomasi, C.S. (1996)
Archbishop Aldo Cavalli (1996)
Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams (1996)
Archbishop Hans Schwemmer † (1997)
Leonardo Cardinal Sandri (1997)
Archbishop Luigi Gatti (1998)
Archbishop Giuseppe Pittau, S.J. † (1998)
Archbishop Nikola Eterović (1999)
Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi (1999)
Archbishop Orlando Antonini (1999)
Archbishop Angelo Mottola † (1999)
Mario Cardinal Zenari (1999)
Archbishop Mario Roberto Cassari † (1999)
Archbishop Joseph Chennoth † (1999)
Archbishop Antonio Mennini (2000)
Bishop Alfonso Badini Confalonieri (2001)
Archbishop Giuseppe Antonio De Andrea † (2001)
Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič (2001)
Giovanni Angelo Cardinal Becciu (2001)
Archbishop Ivo Scapolo (2002)
Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski (2002)
Dominique François Joseph Cardinal Mamberti (2002)
Archbishop Antonio Arcari (2003)
Archbishop Eliseo Antonio Ariotti (2003)
Archbishop Carlo Liberati (2004)
Archbishop Anselmo Guido Pecorari (2004)
Archbishop Renato Boccardo (2004)
Velasio Cardinal De Paolis, C.S. † (2004)
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher (2004)
Archbishop Raffaello Funghini † (2004)
Archbishop Mario Giordana (2004)
Archbishop Andrés Carrascosa Coso (2004)
Archbishop Martin Vidović (2004)
Bishop Jerzy Maculewicz, O.F.M. Conv. (2005)
Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro (2005)
Archbishop Michael August Blume, S.V.D. (2005)
Archbishop Nicola Girasoli (2006)
Bishop Nikolaus Messmer, S.J. † (2006)
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (2006)
Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli (2006)
Archbishop Gianfranco Agostino Gardin, O.F.M. Conv. † (2006)
Archbishop James Patrick Green (2006)
Mister Janusz Wiesław Kaleta (2006)
Archbishop Santo Rocco Gangemi (2012)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Bukovsky (Fukna), S.V.D. † (1990)
Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe (1992)
Archbishop Antonio Franco (1992)
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (1992)
Archbishop Luigi Travaglino (1992)
Bishop Tadeusz Rakoczy (1992)
Bishop Tadeusz Władysław Pieronek † (1992)
Bishop Enzo Dieci (1992)
James Michael Cardinal Harvey (1998)
Stanisław Cardinal Dziwisz (1998)
Archbishop Piero Marini (1998)
Fernando Cardinal Filoni (2001)
Archbishop Henryk Józef Nowacki (2001)
Archbishop Timothy Paul Andrew Broglio (2001)
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino (2001)
Archbishop Tomash (Tomasz) Bernard Peta (2001)
Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (2001)
Marc Armand Cardinal Ouellet, P.S.S. (2001)
Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi (2001)
Bishop Đura Džudžar (2001)
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai, S.D.B. (2011)
Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci (2011)
Archbishop Celso Morga Iruzubieta (2011)
Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi (2011)
Archbishop Edgar Robinson Peña Parra (2011)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Isola d'Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Ordained Priest	Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Ordained Bishop	S. Secondo, Cathedral, Asti, Diocese of Asti, Italy
Death Place	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 302416231
WikiData: Q44752

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 22 Jun 2006
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
r: Bollettino, 21 Dec 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 45, Number 3,086
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 27 May 2022
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 252, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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