Edmund Casimir Szoka
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His Eminence Edmund Szoka |
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| President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State | |
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| Appointed | October 15, 1997 |
| Term ended | September 15, 2006 |
| Predecessor | Rosalio José Castillo Lara |
| Successor | Giovanni Lajolo |
| Other posts | Cardinal Priest of Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio |
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| Ordination | June 5, 1954 by Thomas Lawrence Noa |
| Consecration | July 20, 1971 by John Francis Dearden |
| Created Cardinal | June 28, 1988 by John Paul II |
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September 14, 1927 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A |
| Died | August 20, 2014 (aged 86) Novi, Michigan, U.S.A |
| Previous post | President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See (1990–1997) Archbishop of Detroit (1981–1990) Bishop of Gaylord (1971–1981) |
| Motto | To Live in Faith |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Edmund Casimir Szoka (September 14, 1927 – August 20, 2014) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was President Emeritus of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President Emeritus of the Governatorate of Vatican City State, having previously served as Bishop of Gaylord from 1971 to 1981 and Archbishop of Detroit from 1981 to 1990. Szoka was elevated to the cardinalate in 1988.
Edmund Casimir Szoka was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Casimir and Mary (née Wolgat) Szoka, Polish immigrants. He has an older sister, Irene, and moved with his family in the early 1930s to Muskegon, where he did his primary studies at St. Michael School. Attracted to life as a priest at an early age, Szoka attended St. Joseph's Seminary in Grand Rapids, Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit for his junior and senior years, and then St. John's Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan to study theology.
On June 5, 1954, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thomas Noa in St. Peter's Cathedral in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He did pastoral work in Manistique but soon thereafter became secretary to Bishop Noa of Marquette, whom he accompanied to the first session of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. During this period he also served as chaplain at St. Mary’s Hospital and K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base. From 1957 to 1959, he studied canon law at the Pontifical Urbaniana University or the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Upon returning to the United States, Szoka did pastoral and curial work, including serving as an official of the matrimonial tribunal, in Marquette until 1971. He was raised to the rank of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness on November 14, 1963, by Pope Paul VI.
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