Bishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Mar 1917		Born
12 Mar 1942	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
6 Feb 1969	51.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
6 Feb 1969	51.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ficus
25 Mar 1969	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ficus
19 Dec 1975	58.7	Appointed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
11 Feb 1976	58.8	Installed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
20 Nov 1992	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
2 Sep 1994	77.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba, Australia

MicroData Summary
Edward Francis Kelly
Bishop Edward Francis Kelly M.S.C.
(born 22 Mar 1917, died 2 Sep 1994)
Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba

Event Place
Birth Place Wellington
Ordained Bishop Ste Marie, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney

a priest for 52.4 years
a bishop for 25.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Norman Thomas Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Domenico Enrici †
Titular Archbishop of Ancusa
Archbishop Matthew Beovich †
Archbishop of Adelaide

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop William Martin Morris (1993)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby † (1986)
Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C. † (1986)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q9250873

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 3, Number 102
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 13, Number 689

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