Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Melbourne

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Nov 1925		Born	Werribee
3 Oct 1950	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
16 Nov 1972	47.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
16 Nov 1972	47.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Temuniana
21 Feb 1973	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Temuniana
1 Jul 1974	48.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
16 Jul 1996	70.6	Resigned	Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
7 Apr 2008	82.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

a priest for 57.5 years
a bishop for 35.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Neil Cullinane †
Titular Bishop of Flumenzer
Bishop Ronald Austin Mulkearns
Bishop of Ballarat

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Vicar General of Roma {Rome}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Christopher Charles Prowse (1980)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Peter O’Connell † (1976)
Bishop Peter Joseph Connors (1987)
George Cardinal Pell (1987)
Bishop Jeremiah Joseph Coffey (1989)
Bishop Hilton Forrest Deakin (1993)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Joseph Gerry (1975)
Bishop Robert Healy † (1975)
Bishop Leo Morris Clarke † (1976)
Bishop Bede Vincent Heather (1979)
Archbishop Joseph Eric D’Arcy † (1981)
Archbishop Denis James Hart (1997)
Bishop Joseph Angelo Grech † (1999)

Source(s):

d: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Necrology (back)

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