Miloslav Cardinal Vlk †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 May 1932		Born
23 Jun 1968	36.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czechia
14 Feb 1990	57.7	Appointed	Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czechia
31 Mar 1990	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}, Czechia
27 Mar 1991	58.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
1 Jun 1991	59.0	Installed	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
26 Nov 1994	62.5	Elevated to Cardinal
26 Nov 1994	62.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
13 Feb 2010	77.7	Retired	Archbishop of Praha {Prague}, Czechia
18 Mar 2017	84.8	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}, Czechia

MicroData Summary
Miloslav Vlk
Miloslav Cardinal Vlk
(born 17 May 1932, died 18 Mar 2017)
Archbishop Emeritus of Praha {Prague}

Consistory - 1994: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - November 2005: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)
Ad Limina - February 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lišnice - Sepekov, Diocese of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}
Ordained Bishop S. Nicolas, Church, Ceske Budejovice, Diocese of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}
Death Place Praha, Archdiocese of Praha {Prague}

a priest for 48.7 years
a bishop for 26.9 years
a cardinal for 22.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Hlouch †
Bishop of České Budĕjovice {Budweis}
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Antonín Liška, C.Ss.R. †
Titular Bishop of Vergi
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Franz Xaver Eder †
Bishop of Passau
Bishop Franz Žak †
Bishop of Sankt Pölten
Bishop Maximilian Aichern, O.S.B.
Bishop of Linz
Archbishop Ján Sokol
Archbishop of Trnava

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Antonín Liška, C.Ss.R. † (1988)
Titular Bishop of Vergi
František Cardinal Tomášek † (1949)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Archbishop Josef Karel Matocha † (1948)
Archbishop of Olomouc
Archbishop Josef Beran † (1946)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Archbishop Saverio Ritter † (1935)
Titular Archbishop of Aegina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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:
Bishop Stanislav Přibyl, C.Ss.R. (1996)
Bishop Zdenek Wasserbauer (1996)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jiří Paďour, O.F.M. Cap. † (1997)
Bishop Václav Malý (1997)
Bishop Karel Herbst, S.D.B. (2002)
Bishop Pavel Posád (2004)
Bishop Jan Baxant (2008)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Josef Kajnek (1992)
Dominik Jaroslav Cardinal Duka, O.P. (1998)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/351147
VIAF: 54951872
WikiData: Q454584

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 13 Feb 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 121, Number 10,863
d: CB, 18 Mar 2017
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)

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