Bishop John Joseph Gerry †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia

Titular Bishop of Lugmad

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jun 1927		Born
21 Dec 1950	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brisbane, Australia
5 Jun 1975	48.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia
5 Jun 1975	48.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lugmad
29 Jul 1975	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lugmad
11 Feb 2003	75.6	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia
13 Dec 2017	90.5	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia

MicroData Summary
John Joseph Gerry
Bishop John Joseph Gerry
(born 1 Jun 1927, died 13 Dec 2017)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane

Event Place
Birth Place Rosalie
Ordained Bishop St. Etienne, Brisbane, Archdiocese of Brisbane
Death Place Holy Spirit, Hospital, Chermside, Archdiocese of Brisbane

a priest for 66.9 years
a bishop for 42.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Bishop Bernard Joseph Wallace †
Bishop of Rockhampton

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush † (1961)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Maximilien de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Paltus
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Joseph John Oudeman, O.F.M. Cap. (2003)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1700647

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
d: CB, 13 Dec 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 35, Number 2,124

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