Bishop Laurence Forristal

Bishop Emeritus of Ossory

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jun 1931		Born	Jerpoint Church, Thomastown
21 Dec 1955	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ossory, Ireland
3 Dec 1979	48.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
3 Dec 1979	48.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rotdon
20 Jan 1980	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rotdon
30 Jun 1981	50.1	Appointed	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
14 Sep 2007	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ossory.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi †
Bishop Joseph A. Carroll †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Laurence Forristal (1980)
Archbishop Dermot J. Ryan † (1972)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Laurence Ryan †
Bishop Martin Drennan
Bishop Raymond W. Field
Bishop Séamus Freeman, S.A.C.

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