Bishop John William Comber, M.M. †

Deceased

Official Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

Titular Bishop of Foratiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1906		Born	Lawrence, MA
1 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	52.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
9 Apr 1959	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
7 Aug 1966	60.4	Resigned	Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
27 Mar 1998	92.0	Died	Official Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

a priest for 67.2 years
a bishop for 39.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M. †
Bishop Martin Dewey McNamara †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John William Comber, M.M. † (1959)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

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

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