Bishop Charles Edward Drennan

Bishop Emeritus of Palmerston North, New Zealand

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Aug 1960		Born
14 Jun 1996	35.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Christchurch, New Zealand
22 Feb 2011	50.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand
11 Jun 2011	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand
22 Feb 2012	51.4	Succeeded	Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand
4 Oct 2019	59.1	Resigned	Bishop of Palmerston North, New Zealand

MicroData Summary
Charles Edward Drennan
Bishop Charles Edward Drennan
(born 23 Aug 1960)
Bishop Emeritus of Palmerston North

Ad Limina - December 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Christchurch, Diocese of Christchurch
Ordained Bishop Holy Spirit, Cathedral, Palmerston North, Diocese of Palmerston North

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Palmerston North.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Peter James Cullinane
Bishop of Palmerston North
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Barry Philip Jones †
Bishop of Christchurch
Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge
Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Peter James Cullinane (1980)
Bishop of Palmerston North
Archbishop Thomas Stafford Williams † (1979)
Archbishop of Wellington
Bishop Owen Noel Snedden † (1962)
Titular Bishop of Achelous
Archbishop Peter Thomas McKeefry † (1947)
Archbishop of Wellington
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Stephen Marmion Lowe (2015)
Archbishop Paul Gerard Martin, S.M. (2018)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q183075

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2011
ob/c2+: CB, 12 Jun 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 206, Number 17,075
s: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2012
r: Bollettino, 4 Oct 2019

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