Bishop Raymond Rodly Caesar, S.V.D. †

Deceased

Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Feb 1932		Born
1953²	20.8	First Vows	Member of Society of the Divine Word
1959²	26.8	Final Vows	Member of Society of the Divine Word
1960²	27.8	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Society of the Divine Word
4 Jun 1961	29.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
13 Jul 1978	46.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
25 Oct 1978	46.6	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
30 Aug 1980	48.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea
18 Jun 1987	55.3	Died	Bishop of Goroka, Papua New Guinea

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Raymond Rodly Caesar
Bishop Raymond Rodly Caesar S.V.D.
(born 14 Feb 1932, died 18 Jun 1987)
Bishop of Goroka

Event Place
Birth Place Eunice, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Ordained Priest St. Augustine's, Seminary, Bay St. Louis
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Mingende, Diocese of Goroka
Death Place Brisbane, Archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia

a priest for 26.0 years
a bishop for 8.6 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Joseph Bernard Brunini †
Titular Bishop of Axomis
Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi †
Titular Archbishop of Myra
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Edward Cohill, S.V.D. †
Bishop of Goroka
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Adolph Alexander Noser, S.V.D. †
Archbishop Emeritus of Madang
Archbishop Herman To Paivu †
Archbishop of Port Moresby

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Edward Cohill, S.V.D. † (1967)
Bishop of Goroka
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland † (1940)
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh † (1918)
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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:
Archbishop William Joseph Kurtz, S.V.D. † (1982)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Raymond Philip Kalisz, S.V.D. † (1980)
Bishop Hermann Raich, S.V.D. † (1982)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q63975610

Source(s):

ob/c23: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 50, Number 3,448
firs/fina: Index Defunctorum Societatis Verbi Divini 1875-2010, Page 23
d.loc: CB, 2 Dec 2021
od/c01: CB, 21 May 2022

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