RIP Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski - Death of Former Head of the Vatican Congregation for Education at age 80

Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, long-time former head of the Vatican Congregation for Education, is dead. He died at the age of 80, according to the Polish Bishops' Conference on Friday. At the end of January, the emeritus cardinal of the Curia,  lived until his death in the Vatican. In March 2015, Pope Francis accepted the 75-year-old's resignation. With the death of Grocholewski, the College of Cardinals still has 221 members. Of these, 122 are under 80 years old and are therefore entitled to vote for the Pope.

Vatican Biography 
Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education, was born on 11 October 1939 in Bródki, Poland. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Poznań on 27 May 1963. He worked for three years at Christ the Redeemer Parish in Poznań before earning a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.

From 1972 to 1999 he worked at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura as notary, chancellor, Secretary and Prefect. During this time he was one of the seven members of the commission that studied the draft of the 1983 Code of Canon Law with the Pope, and he taught canon law at the Gregorian and Lateran Universities and the Studio Rotale. He was appointed titular Bishop of Agropoli on 21 December 1982 and consecrated 6 January 1983. He was promoted to Archbishop on 16 December 1991.

On 15 November 1999 he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

He is presently the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic Education, 31 March 2015.

He participated in the conclave of April 2005, which elected Pope Benedict XVI and in the conclave of March 2013, which elected Pope Francis.

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by St. John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001, of the Title of S. Nicola in Carcere (St. Nicholas in Prison), Deaconry elevated pro hac vice to presbyteral title (21 February 2011).

Member of:

Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura;
Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.
Biography Source: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_grocholewski_z.html
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