Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Mar 1910		Born
22 Jan 1939	28.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
27 Nov 1952	42.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Accra, Ghana
27 Nov 1952	42.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cyparissia
8 Jan 1953	42.7	Appointed	Bishop of Accra, Ghana
22 Apr 1953	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Accra, Ghana
16 Jan 1971	60.8	Appointed	Bishop of Saint John’s, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
17 Jul 1981	71.3	Retired	Bishop of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles
6 Nov 2012	102.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British), Antilles

MicroData Summary for Joseph Oliver Bowers (VIAF: 171451529)
Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers S.V.D. (born 28 Mar 1910, died 6 Nov 2012) Bishop Emeritus of Saint John’s-Basseterre

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

Event Place
Birth Place Mahaut

a priest for 73.7 years
a bishop for 59.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow †
Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi
Bishop Adolph Alexander Noser, S.V.D. †
Titular Bishop of Hierpiniana

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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Kodwo Amissah † (1957)
Bishop Joseph Amihere Essuah † (1962)
Archbishop Donald James Reece (1981)

Source(s):

c2+: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)

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