Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1902		Born	Hartford City
11 Jun 1927	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
22 Jul 1950	48.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
22 Jul 1950	48.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Pisidia
19 Sep 1950	48.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Pisidia
9 Mar 1955	53.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
29 Dec 1956	54.8	Appointed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
26 Feb 1957	55.0	Installed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
24 Aug 1976	74.4	Resigned	Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
15 Nov 1998	96.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA

a priest for 71.4 years
a bishop for 48.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Francis Noll †
Bishop Joseph Mary Marling, C.Pp.S. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley † (1950)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo 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:
Bishop Thomas Joseph Danehy, M.M. †
Bishop Andrew Gregory Grutka †
Bishop Juan de Dios López de Victoria †
Bishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe †
Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley †

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