Archbishop Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Johannesburg, South Africa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Jan 1914		Born
25 May 1940	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
6 Aug 1966	52.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa
18 Oct 1966	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Bloemfontein, South Africa
24 Jan 1976	62.0	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Johannesburg, South Africa
2 Jul 1984	70.4	Resigned	Bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa
16 Feb 1986	72.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Johannesburg, South Africa

MicroData Summary
Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald
Archbishop Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald O.M.I.
(born 7 Jan 1914, died 16 Feb 1986)
Bishop Emeritus of Johannesburg

Event Place
Birth Place Ballyhahill, Ireland

a priest for 45.7 years
a bishop for 19.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Owen Cardinal McCann †
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Denis Eugene Hurley, O.M.I. †
Archbishop of Durban
Archbishop John Colburn Garner †
Archbishop of Pretoria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Owen Cardinal McCann † (1950)
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (1945)
Titular Archbishop of Adulis
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I. (1967)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Erwin Hecht, O.M.I. † (1972)
Bishop Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, S.C.I. † (1974)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Baptist Minder, O.S.F.S. † (1968)
Archbishop George Francis Daniel (1975)
Bishop Hubert Bucher † (1977)
Sebastian Koto Cardinal Khoarai, O.M.I. † (1978)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q63891096

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138

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