Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe

Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

Titular Bishop of Drivastum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Feb 1958		Born
10 Jul 1983	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dublin, Ireland
30 Nov 2007	49.7	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
19 Dec 2015	57.8	Appointed	Adjunct Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture
19 Dec 2015	57.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Drivastum
27 Feb 2016	58.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Drivastum
28 Oct 2017	59.7	Appointed	Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture
5 Jun 2022	64.3	Appointed	Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education

MicroData Summary
Paul Desmond Tighe
Bishop Paul Desmond Tighe
(born 12 Feb 1958)
Secretary of Culture and Education

Event Place
Birth Place Navan, County Meath, Ireland
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Dicastery for Culture and Education.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC.
Titular Bishop of Thibilis
Principal Consecrator:
Pietro Cardinal Parolin
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi
Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli
Titular Archbishop of Cluentum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pietro Cardinal Parolin (2009)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela
Pope Benedict XVI (1977)
(Joseph Ratzinger †)
Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
Bishop of Speyer
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Giovanni Cesare Pagazzi (2024)
Archbishop Carlo Maria Polvani (2025)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 315523373
WikiData: Q5384606

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 19 Dec 2015
ob/c2+: CB, 23 Jan 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 227, Number 18,850
ab: Bollettino, 28 Oct 2017

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