Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development
Czerny in front of Angels Unawares, 2019.
Church
Latin Church
Installed
23 April 2022
Predecessor
Peter Turkson
Other post(s)
Cardinal Deacon of San Michele Arcangelo a Pietralata (2019–present)
Orders
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
Personal details
Born
Michael F. Czerny
(1946-07-18) 18 July 1946 (age 77)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Nationality
Canadian
Denomination
Catholic
Previous post(s)
Titular Archbishop of Beneventum (2019)
Under-Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (2016-2022)
Alma mater
Gonzaga University
University of Chicago
Motto
Suscipe (Receive)
Ordination history of Michael Czerny
History
Priestly ordination
Date
9 June 1973
Place
Regis College, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecrator
Pope Francis
Co-consecrators
Pietro Parolin
Peter Turkson
Date
4 October 2019
Place
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
Cardinalate
Elevated by
Pope Francis
Date
5 October 2019
Styles of Michael F. Czerny
Reference style
His Eminence
Spoken style
Your Eminence
Informal style
Cardinal
Michael F. CzernySJ (born 18 July 1946) is a Czechoslovakian-born Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development since 23 April 2022, after serving as interim prefect for several months. He was under secretary of that 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.
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reach 100% of Africa in remote areas, according to the Vatican studies. MichaelCzerny SJ founded and headed the entity from 2002 to 2010. The reason for the...
the Holy Spirit more than the rest of us to sort it out." Cardinal MichaelCzerny has explained the attacks against Pope Francis by a minority in the...
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studied at St. Michael's College in Toronto, from where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1926. One of his professors at St. Michael's was Lester B...
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become a composer and later wrote about their encounters. The young Carl Czerny, who later became a renowned pianist and music teacher himself, studied...
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