Bishop Bede Vincent Heather †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Dec 1928		Born
15 Jul 1951	22.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
30 Jun 1979	50.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
30 Jun 1979	50.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Obbi
4 Aug 1979	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Obbi
8 Apr 1986	57.3	Appointed	Bishop of Parramatta, Australia
18 May 1986	57.4	Installed	Bishop of Parramatta, Australia
10 Jul 1997	68.5	Resigned	Bishop of Parramatta, Australia
25 Feb 2021	92.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta, Australia

MicroData Summary
Bede Vincent Heather
Bishop Bede Vincent Heather
(born 7 Dec 1928, died 25 Feb 2021)
Bishop Emeritus of Parramatta

Event Place
Birth Place Strathfield
Ordained Bishop St. Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney
Death Place Saint Ezekiel Moreno Nursing Home, Croydon

a priest for 69.6 years
a bishop for 41.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Bishop Albert Kanene Obiefuna †
Bishop of Awka

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):

WikiData: Q813827

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 59, Number 4,425
d: CB, 25 Feb 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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