Raffaele Cardinal Farina, S.D.B.

Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Secret Archive

Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni della Pigna

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Sep 1933		Born
25 Sep 1954	21.0	Professed	Member of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
1 Jul 1958	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
1981²	47.2	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
1989²	55.2	Resigned	Secretary of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences
25 May 1997	63.6	Appointed	Prefect of the Vatican Library
15 Nov 2006	73.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Opitergium
16 Dec 2006	73.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Opitergium
25 Jun 2007	73.7	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Opitergium
25 Jun 2007	73.7	Appointed	Librarian of the Vatican Library
25 Jun 2007	73.7	Appointed	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive
24 Nov 2007	74.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna
24 Nov 2007	74.1	Elevated to Cardinal
5 Apr 2008	74.5	Installed	Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni della Pigna
9 Jun 2012	78.7	Retired	Librarian of the Vatican Library
9 Jun 2012	78.7	Retired	Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archive
19 May 2018	84.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni della Pigna

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Raffaele Farina
Raffaele Cardinal Farina S.D.B.
(born 24 Sep 1933)
Archivist Emeritus of Vatican Secret Archive

Consistory - 2007: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2013: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Buonalbergo, Diocese of Ariano, Italy
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

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Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michele Alberto Arduino, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Shaoguan [Shiuchow]
Principal Consecrator:
Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B.
Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
James Francis Cardinal Stafford
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Jean-Louis Pierre Cardinal Tauran †
Cardinal-Deacon of Sant’Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Cardinal Bertone, S.D.B. (1991)
Archbishop Emeritus of Genova {Genoa}
Archbishop Albino Mensa † (1960)
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Bishop Gaudenzio Binaschi † (1930)
Bishop of Pinerolo
Bishop Giuseppe Castelli † (1911)
Bishop of Novara
Agostino Cardinal Richelmy † (1886)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Gaetano Cardinal Alimonda † (1877)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
Archbishop Salvatore Magnasco † (1868)
Archbishop of Genova
Gustav Adolf Cardinal von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst † (1857)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Traspontina
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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:
Walter Cardinal Brandmüller (2010)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Buonalbergo, Diocese of Ariano, Italy
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

External Link(s):

VIAF: 5058576
WikiData: Q127211

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Nov 2006
c2+/ob: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Number 15,299
ab: Bollettino, 25 Jun 2007
c1: CB
r: Bollettino, 9 Jun 2012
ab: Bollettino, 19 May 2018

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