Bishop Ronald Austin Mulkearns †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Nov 1930		Born
22 Jul 1956	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
5 Sep 1968	37.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
5 Sep 1968	37.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cululi
4 Dec 1968	38.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cululi
1 May 1971	40.4	Succeeded	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
30 May 1997	66.5	Resigned	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
4 Apr 2016	85.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat, Australia

MicroData Summary
Ronald Austin Mulkearns
Bishop Ronald Austin Mulkearns
(born 11 Nov 1930, died 4 Apr 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat

Event Place
Birth Place Caulfield

a priest for 59.7 years
a bishop for 47.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Justin Daniel Simonds †
Titular Archbishop of Antinoë
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Patrick O’Collins †
Bishop of Ballarat
Bishop Arthur Francis Fox †
Bishop of Sale

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)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
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 (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

Ordained Deacon:
Archbishop Shane Anthony Mackinlay (1990)
Ordained Priest:
Bishop Leslie Rogers Tomlinson (1972)
Archbishop Shane Anthony Mackinlay (1991)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Bishop Eric Gerard Perkins † (1973)
Bishop John Anthony Kelly † (1973)
Bishop Joseph Peter O’Connell † (1976)
Bishop Peter Joseph Connors (1987)
George Cardinal Pell † (1987)
Bishop Leslie Rogers Tomlinson (2009)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q782610

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
d: CB, 3 Apr 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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