Michael Czerny
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It sits within the topics 1946 births, 20th-century Canadian Jesuits and 20th-century Czech Jesuits.
Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Church
- Latin Church
- Installed
- 23 April 2022
- Predecessor
- Peter Turkson
- Other post
- Cardinal Deacon of San Michele Arcangelo a Pietralata (2019–present)
- Previous posts
- Titular Archbishop of Beneventum (2019) Under-Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (2016-2022)
- Ordination
- 9 June 1973, by Thomas Benjamin Fulton
- Consecration
- 4 October 2019, by Pope Francis
- Created cardinal
- 5 October 2019, by Pope Francis
- Rank
- Cardinal-Deacon
- Born
- Michael Felix Czerny , ( 1946-07-18 ) 18 July 1946 (age 79) , Brno , Czechoslovakia
- Denomination
- Catholic
- Alma mater
- Gonzaga University University of Chicago
- Motto
- Suscipe , ( Latin for ' Receive ' )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Brno
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Participant in
- 2025 conclave
- Image
- Card. Michael Czerny S.J. at the Vatican.jpg
- Motto
- Suscipe
- Religious order
- Society of Jesus
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- Commons category
- Michael Czerny
- date of birth
- 1946-07-18
- social media followers
- 3731
- consecrator
- Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
- P8168
- Olszanica
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Felix Czerny, CMG SJ (born 18 July 1946) is a Czech-born Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development since 2022. He was under secretary of the dicastery's Migrants and Refugees Section from 2017 to 2022. Pope Francis made him a cardinal in 2019.
A member of the Jesuits, Czerny has worked to promote social justice in Canada, Latin America, Africa, and Rome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Czerny” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.