Bishop John Richard Sheets, S.J. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana

Titular Bishop of Murcona

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Sep 1922		Born	Omaha, NE
17 Jun 1953	30.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
14 May 1991	68.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
14 May 1991	68.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Murcona
25 Jun 1991	68.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Murcona
23 Sep 1997	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
16 Apr 2003	80.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA

a priest for 49.8 years
a bishop for 11.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Michael D’Arcy
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara †
Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Richard Sheets, S.J. † (1991)
Bishop John Michael D’Arcy (1975)
Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros † (1966)
Bishop James Louis Connolly † (1945)
Archbishop John Gregory Murray † (1920)
Giovanni Vincenzo Cardinal Bonzano † (1912)
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 †

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126, Number 11,408
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)

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