Bishop Raymond William Lessard

Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, Georgia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1930		Born	Grafton
16 Dec 1956	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
5 Mar 1973	42.2	Appointed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
27 Apr 1973	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
7 Feb 1995	64.1	Retired	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Savannah.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Justin Albert Driscoll †
Bishop Francis Joseph Gossman

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Raymond William Lessard (1973)
Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan † (1964)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb
Bishop John Kevin Boland

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