Bishop Myles McKeon †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bunbury, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Apr 1919		Born
22 Jun 1947	28.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Perth, Australia
23 May 1962	43.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, Australia
23 May 1962	43.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Antipyrgos
12 Sep 1962	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Antipyrgos
6 Mar 1969	49.9	Appointed	Bishop of Bunbury, Australia
18 Feb 1982	62.8	Resigned	Bishop of Bunbury, Australia
2 May 2016	97.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bunbury, Australia

MicroData Summary
Myles McKeon
Bishop Myles McKeon
(born 3 Apr 1919, died 2 May 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Bunbury

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Drummin, Archdiocese of Tuam, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Ste Marie, Cathedral, Perth, Archdiocese of Perth

a priest for 68.8 years
a bishop for 53.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Henry Vincent Marshall †
Bishop of Salford, England
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Launcelot John Goody †
Bishop of Bunbury
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes (John) Jobst, S.A.C. †
Titular Bishop of Pitanae
Bishop Francis Xavier Thomas †
Bishop of Geraldton

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Launcelot John Goody † (1951)
Bishop of Bunbury
Bishop Alfred Joseph Gummer † (1942)
Bishop of Geraldton
Archbishop Norman Thomas 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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Quinn † (1969)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q439295

Source(s):

c1+: AustOceaniaBishops.org
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1962, Number 140
d: CB, 2 May 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 1, Number 49

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