Bishop John Edward Heaps †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia

Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Feb 1927		Born
8 Mar 1958	31.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
4 Sep 1981	54.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
4 Sep 1981	54.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig
31 Oct 1981	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig
12 Mar 1992	65.0	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
21 Jun 2004	77.3	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia

MicroData Summary
John Edward Heaps
Bishop John Edward Heaps
(born 25 Feb 1927, died 21 Jun 2004)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Sydney

Event Place
Birth Place Hamilton
Ordained Bishop St. Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney

a priest for 46.2 years
a bishop for 22.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luigi Barbarito †
Titular Archbishop of Fiorentino
Archbishop James Patrick Carroll †
Titular Archbishop of Amasea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † (1957)
Archbishop of Sydney
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 94035623
WikiData: Q11727881

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 71, Number 5,676

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