Stanisław Ryłko
Stanisław Cardinal Ryłko ( born July 4, 1945 in Wadowice, Poland ) is a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Life
After studying Catholic theology Ryłko received on 30 March 1969 the archbishop of Krakow and later Pope John Paul II the sacrament of Holy Orders.
On 20 December 1995, John Paul II appointed him Titular Archbishop of Novica and secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and donated it on 6 January 1996, the episcopal ordination. Co-consecrators were the Archbishops Giovanni Battista Re and Jorge María Mejía. On 4 October 2003 John Paul II appointed him president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity. After his election, Benedict XVI confirmed. Ryłko in this office. Even Pope Francis him first confirmed provisionally and on February 6, 2014, at the time as president of the Council for the Laity.
The Italian news agency ANSA speculated in 2006 about a possible successor Ryłkos for Józef Cardinal Glemp as archbishop of Warsaw, but this proved to be a miscalculation by the appointment of Stanisław Wielgus and later Kazimierz Nycz of.
24 November 2007 it took Benedict XVI. as cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re in the College of Cardinals.
Work in Germany
In the seventies he became a regular for the vacationing in the parish Sindelsdorf ( Rhineland ) near Cologne. He also maintains today the contact with this community
At the World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, he has been involved in the preparation and implementation, there he celebrated several masses.
On April 10, 2008, he handed over the German ambassador to the Holy See Hans -Henning Horstmann conferred by Federal President Horst Köhler Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with Star and Sash.
Memberships
Memberships in the Roman Curia
Stanisław Cardinal Ryłko is a member of the following institutions of the Roman Curia:
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints (since 2008)
- Congregation for Bishops (since 2008; confirmed 2013)
- Pontifical Commission for Latin America ( since 2008)
- Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization ( since 2011 )