Archbishop Giorgio Zur †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Sesta

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Feb 1930		Born
10 Oct 1955	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
5 Feb 1979	48.9	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Sesta
5 Feb 1979	48.9	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Malawi
5 Feb 1979	48.9	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Zambia
24 Feb 1979	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Sesta
3 May 1985	55.2	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Paraguay
13 Aug 1990	60.4	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to India
13 Aug 1990	60.4	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Nepal
7 Dec 1998	68.8	Appointed	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
29 Jan 2000	69.9	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Russian Federation
8 Oct 2002	72.6	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
26 Jul 2005	75.4	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Austria
8 Jan 2019	88.8	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

MicroData Summary for Giorgio Zur
(VIAF: 216813390; WikiData: Q96455)
Archbishop Giorgio Zur (born 15 Feb 1930, died 8 Jan 2019) Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Görlitz, Germany
Ordained Bishop College de la Propagande, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Casa Santa Marta, Vatican City, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 63.2 years
a bishop for 39.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot †
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Agostino Casaroli †
Titular Archbishop of Cartagine
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jean-Marie Cardinal Villot † (1954)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Maurice Cardinal Feltin † (1928)
Archbishop of Paris
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Binet † (1920)
Archbishop of Besançon
Louis-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Luçon † (1888)
Archbishop of Reims
Bishop Charles-Emile Freppel † (1870)
Bishop of Angers
François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet † (1835)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Gustave-Maximilien-Juste de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop of Rouen
Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790)
Archbishop of Reims
Archbishop Antonio Dugnani † (1785)
Titular Archbishop of Rhodus
Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico (Jr.) † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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:
Archbishop Marampudi Joji † (1992)
Archbishop Albert D’Souza (1993)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Görlitz, Germany
Ordained Bishop	College de la Propagande, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Casa Santa Marta, Vatican City, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

loc: CB, 8 Jan 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 51, Number 3,575, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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