Bishop Walter William Curtis †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 May 1913		Born	Jersey City, NJ
8 Dec 1937	24.6	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	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bisica
23 Sep 1961	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
21 Nov 1961	48.5	Installed	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
28 Jun 1988	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
18 Oct 1997	84.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

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

a priest for 59.9 years
a bishop for 40.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Aloysius McNulty †
Bishop George William Ahr †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Walter William Curtis † (1957)
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland † (1940)
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh † (1918)
Giovanni Vincenzo Cardinal Bonzano † (1912)
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. †
Bishop James Edward Charles Burke, O.P. †
Bishop John Charles Reiss †
Bishop James Thomas McHugh †
Bishop John Mortimer Fourette Smith
Bishop Alfred James Jolson, S.J. †

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)

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