Bishop Peter Baldacchino

Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

Motto: Vbi Dominvs Ibidem Laetitia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Dec 1960		Born
25 May 1996	35.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA
20 Feb 2014	53.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Miami, Florida, USA
20 Feb 2014	53.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vatarba
19 Mar 2014	53.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vatarba
15 May 2019	58.4	Appointed	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
23 Jul 2019	58.6	Installed	Bishop of Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA

MicroData Summary
Peter Baldacchino
Bishop Peter Baldacchino
(born 5 Dec 1960)
Bishop of Las Cruces

Ad Limina - February 2020: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sliema, Archdiocese of Malta
Ordained Priest Sacred Heart, Cathedral Basilica, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Bishop St. Mary, Cathedral, Miami, Archdiocese of Miami, Florida

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Las Cruces.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski
Archbishop of Miami, Florida
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder
Archbishop of Nassau, Bahamas
Archbishop Charles Henry Dufour
Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski (1997)
Archbishop of Miami, Florida
Archbishop John Clement Favalora (1986)
Archbishop of Miami, Florida
Archbishop Pio Laghi † (1969)
Titular Archbishop of Mauriana
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15840025

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 20 Feb 2014
ob/c2: CB, 20 Feb 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,117
ab: Bollettino, 15 May 2019
i: CB, 15 May 2019
op.loc: CB, 21 Oct 2022

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