Bishop Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger

Bishop Emeritus of Evansville, Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Oct 1935		Born
7 May 1961	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
11 Mar 1989	53.3	Appointed	Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA
11 Apr 1989	53.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA
26 Apr 2011	75.5	Retired	Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger
Bishop Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger
(born 20 Oct 1935)
Bishop Emeritus of Evansville

Ad Limina - May 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - February 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ramsey

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Evansville.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Paul Clarence Schulte †
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara †
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Joseph O’Brien †
Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona
Bishop Daniel Mark (Marcus George) Buechlein, O.S.B. †
Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara † (1972)
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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:
Archbishop Paul Dennis Etienne (1992)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Charles Coleman Thompson (2011)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1509789

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 26 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115, Number 10,247

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