Alfons Maria Stickler (born 23 August 1910) is an Austrian ecclesiastic and cardinal. August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ... 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. ...

Biography

Stickler was born in Neunkirchen. There are communes and places that have the name Neunkirchen (German for new church): In Austria Neunkirchen, independent city in Lower Austria in Germany Bavaria Neunkirchen am Brand, in the Forchheim district Neunkirchen am Sand, in the Nürnberger Land district Neunkirchen (Unterfranken), , in the Miltenberg district Neunkirchen (bei Mosbach...

He joined the Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales and professed on 15 August 1928. Thereafter, he studied philosophy in Germany and then in Austria, Torino and Rome. He was ordained priest in 1937 . Saint Francis of Sales (in French, St François de Sales), seventeenth-century bishop of Geneva and Roman Catholic saint, was born at Thorens into a Savoyard noble family on 21 August 1567. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He became a professor at the Salesian University . From 1953 to 1958 he was dean of the canon law faculty; 1958 to 1966 rector; and, from 1965 to 1968 president of the newly founded Institutum Altioris Latinitas.

On 25 March 1971, he was Appointed Prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library. During Tenure he promoted the construction of underground storage for the conservation and consultation of all the codes of the library. March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Pope Sixtus IV appoints Bartolomeo Platina prefect of the Vatican Library, fresco by Melozzo da Forlì, c. ...

On 8 September 1983 he was elected titular archbishop of Bolsena and pro-librarian of the Holy Roman Church. He was Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church from 27 May 1985 to 1 July 1988. On 25 May 1985, he was created a Cardinal by John Paul II. September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bolsena is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Viterbo in northern Lazio, 43°39N 11°59E, at 350 meters (1148 ft) above sea-level on the eastern shore of Lake Bolsena. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official papal image of John Paul II. His Holiness Pope John Paul II, né Karol Józef Wojtyła (born May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Poland), is the current Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

In 2006, after Johannes Willebrands's death, he became the oldest living Cardinal. Johannes Cardinal Willebrands (born 4 September 1909) is resident emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity. ...

External links

• Bio from Catholic-Hierarchy
• catholic-pages bio