Bishop John Joyce Russell †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Dec 1897		Born	Baltimore, MD
8 Jul 1923	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
28 Jan 1950	52.2	Appointed	Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
14 Mar 1950	52.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, USA
3 Jul 1958	60.6	Appointed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
30 Sep 1958	60.8	Installed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
28 Apr 1973	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
17 Mar 1993	95.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA

a priest for 69.7 years
a bishop for 43.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Patrick Aloysius Cardinal O’Boyle †
Bishop John Michael McNamara †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Joyce Russell † (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)
Carlo Cardinal 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 Consecrator of:
Bishop James Louis Flaherty †
Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jerome Aloysius Daugherty Sebastian †
Bishop Thomas Austin Murphy †
Bishop Thomas Joseph Mardaga †

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