Bishop Leonard James Olivier, S.V.D. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Titular Bishop of Legia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Oct 1923		Born
29 Jun 1951	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
10 Nov 1988	65.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 Nov 1988	65.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Legia
20 Dec 1988	65.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Legia
18 May 2004	80.5	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
19 Nov 2014	91.1	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Washington, District of Columbia, USA

MicroData Summary
Leonard James Olivier
Bishop Leonard James Olivier S.V.D.
(born 12 Oct 1923, died 19 Nov 2014)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Washington

Ad Limina - April 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lake Charles, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana
Ordained Priest Bay St. Louis
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, National, Shrine, Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia

a priest for 63.3 years
a bishop for 25.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow †
Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi
Principal Consecrator:
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey †
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eugene Antonio Marino, S.S.J. †
Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia
Bishop Álvaro Corrada del Río, S.J.
Titular Bishop of Rusticiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey † (1967)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Archbishop John Francis Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francisco González Valer, S.F. † (2002)
Kevin Joseph Cardinal Farrell (2002)
Bishop Martin David Holley (2004)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1819001

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,928
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 21 Nov 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 13 May 2022

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