Bishop John William Comber, M.M. †

Deceased

Superior General Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

Titular Bishop of Foratiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1906		Born
9 Sep 1925	19.4	Entered	Member of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
7 Feb 1931	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
6 Aug 1956	50.4	Appointed	Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
23 Jan 1959	52.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
9 Apr 1959	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
7 Aug 1966	60.4	Ceased	Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
27 Mar 1998	92.0	Died	Superior General Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

MicroData Summary for John William Comber
(WikiData: Q16014034)
Bishop John William Comber M.M. (born 12 Mar 1906, died 27 Mar 1998) Superior General Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Lawrence, MA, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ordained Priest Maryknoll, Seminary, Ossinging, NY
Ordained Bishop Queen of the Apostles Chapel, Maryknoll, Seminary, Ossinging, NY
Death Place St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, NY
Buried Place (Original) Maryknoll Center, Cemetery, Maryknoll, NY

a priest for 67.1 years
a bishop for 38.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M. †
Titular Bishop of Hypaepa
Bishop Martin Dewey McNamara †
Bishop of Joliet in Illinois

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. † (1962)
Bishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. † (1963)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M. † (1961)
Bishop William John McNaughton, M.M. † (1961)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lawrence, MA, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ordained Priest	Maryknoll, Seminary, Ossinging, NY
Ordained Bishop	Queen of the Apostles Chapel, Maryknoll, Seminary, Ossinging, NY
Death Place	St. Teresa’s Residence, Maryknoll, NY
Buried Place (Original)	Maryknoll Center, Cemetery, Maryknoll, NY

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1959, Number 30

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