Bishop Walter William Curtis †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 May 1913		Born
8 Dec 1937	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA
27 Jun 1957	44.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
27 Jun 1957	44.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bisica
24 Sep 1957	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bisica
23 Sep 1961	48.3	Appointed	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
21 Nov 1961	48.5	Installed	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
28 Jun 1988	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
18 Oct 1997	84.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

MicroData Summary
Walter William Curtis
Bishop Walter William Curtis
(born 3 May 1913, died 18 Oct 1997)
Bishop Emeritus of Bridgeport

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 Jersey City, NJ, Diocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place Trumbull, CT

a priest for 59.8 years
a bishop for 40.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Ralph Leo Hayes †
Titular Bishop of Hieropolis
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Aloysius McNulty †
Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey
Bishop George William Ahr †
Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. † (1962)
Bishop James Edward Charles Burke, O.P. † (1967)
Bishop John Charles Reiss † (1967)
Bishop James Thomas McHugh † (1988)
Bishop John Mortimer Fourette Smith † (1988)
Bishop Alfred James Jolson, S.J. † (1988)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 3977584
WikiData: Q5392075

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 21 Sep 2016
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1957, Number 106

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