Bernard Francis Cardinal Law

Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}

Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Nov 1931		Born	Torreón, México
21 May 1961	29.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Natchez-Jackson, Mississippi, USA
22 Oct 1973	42.0	Appointed	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
5 Dec 1973	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
11 Jan 1984	52.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
23 Mar 1984	52.4	Installed	Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 May 1985	53.6	Elevated to Cardinal
25 May 1985	53.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of S. Susanna
13 Dec 2002	71.1	Resigned	Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 May 2004	72.6	Appointed	Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}

Consistory - 1985: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

Please contact the Cardinal through the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore {Saint Mary Major Basilica}.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Egidio Cardinal Vagnozzi †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Bernard Brunini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
William Wakefield Cardinal Baum
Joseph Louis Cardinal Bernardin †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernard Francis Cardinal Law (1973)
Bishop Joseph Bernard Brunini † (1957)
Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow † (1924)
Bishop Edward Patrick Allen † (1897)
James Cardinal Gibbons † (1868)
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
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 †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Tomás Andrés Mauro Muldoon, O.F.M.
Bishop Robert Joseph Banks
Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M.
Bishop John Richard McNamara †
Bishop John Patrick Boles
Bishop John Brendan McCormack
Bishop William Francis Murphy
Bishop Francis Xavier Irwin
Bishop Emilio Simeon Alluè, S.D.B.
Bishop Richard Joseph Malone
Bishop Walter James Edyvean
Bishop Richard Gerard Lennon
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop William Stephen Skylstad
Bishop John Joseph Leibrecht

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