Bishop Ralph Hubert Dignan †

Deceased

Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Dec 1890		Born
29 May 1915	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of London, Ontario, Canada
22 Dec 1934	44.0	Appointed	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
19 Mar 1935	44.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
2 Apr 1935	44.3	Installed	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada
22 Nov 1958	67.9	Died	Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada

MicroData Summary
Ralph Hubert Dignan
Bishop Ralph Hubert Dignan
(born 9 Dec 1890, died 22 Nov 1958)
Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie

Event Place
Birth Place London, Diocese of London, Ontario
Ordained Bishop St. Peter, Cathedral, London, Diocese of London, Ontario
Death Place London, Diocese of London, Ontario

a priest for 43.4 years
a bishop for 23.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Andrea Cassulo †
Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Thomas McNally †
Bishop of Hamilton, Ontario
Bishop John Thomas Kidd †
Bishop of London, Ontario

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Andrea Cassulo † (1914)
Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica
Archbishop Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo, Sch. P. † (1893)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
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 Priest:
Bishop John Michael Sherlock † (1950)
Bishop Brian Leo John Hennessy, C. R. † (1950)
Bishop Roger-Alfred Despatie † (1952)
Bishop Joseph Adolphe Proulx † (1954)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Philip Francis Pocock † (1944)
Bishop Thomas Joseph McCarthy † (1955)
Bishop Alexander Carter † (1957)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q26915349

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1935, Number 20
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 446

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