Bishop George Avis Fulcher †

Deceased

Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jan 1922		Born
28 Feb 1948	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Columbus, Ohio, USA
24 May 1976	54.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
24 May 1976	54.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Morosbisdus
18 Jul 1976	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Morosbisdus
8 Feb 1983	61.0	Appointed	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
14 Apr 1983	61.2	Installed	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
25 Jan 1984	61.9	Died	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
George Avis Fulcher
Bishop George Avis Fulcher
(born 30 Jan 1922, died 25 Jan 1984)
Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana

Event Place
Birth Place Columbus, Diocese of Columbus, Ohio
Ordained Priest Columbus, Diocese of Columbus, Ohio
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Columbus, Diocese of Columbus, Ohio
Death Place Rockville, IN

a priest for 35.9 years
a bishop for 7.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael Joseph Ready †
Bishop of Columbus, Ohio
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Edward John Herrmann †
Bishop of Columbus, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Louis Bernardin †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Bishop James Aloysius Hickey †
Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edward John Herrmann † (1966)
Bishop of Columbus, Ohio
Archbishop Patrick Aloysius O’Boyle † (1948)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

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WikiData: Q5536516

Source(s):

c1: CB, 16 May 2022
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1976, Number 79

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