Stanczyk honors, His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, who is being beatified tomorrow (1st-May-2011).
I want to write two parts upon this pope. Part One, is I want to write about his religious lineage. Part Two (on 5/1/2011), I want write about his genealogical lineage. The parallels to that statement should be obvious, so I will not draw it. If you do not get it, then read a good book.
Both parts will start with Karol Józef Wojtyła‘s birth. If you look at the prayer card to the left, you will see:
Birth-Priest-Bishop-Cardinal-Pope-Deceased-Beatified. That is the timeline: 1920-1946-1958-1967-1978-2005-2011, a period 91 years. If canonization occurs then we may well be speaking about a century or more. The dates are to the left (uh, or above) on the prayer card. But that is not what I meant by the great pope’s religious lineage. What I mean is right here (Catholic-Hierarchy.org). So here is his religious lineage:
Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:
- Pope Karol Józef Wojtyła † (1958)
- Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
- Archbishop Boleslaw Twardowski † (1919)
- Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
- Jan Maurycy Pawel Cardinal Puzyna de Kosielsko † (1886)
- Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
- Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
- Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
- Pope Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga † (1794)
- Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
- Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
- Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
- Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
- Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
- Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
- Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
- Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
- Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
- Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
- Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
There is also another religious lineage. The great pope is the 264th pope in direct line back to Saint Peter (the Apostle). John Paul II, was not the longest reigning pope, nor was he the oldest pope. That is his papal lineage (also a religious lineage).
The known Catholic lineages are:
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