Bishop William Michael Joensen

Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Jul 1960		Born
24 Jun 1989	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
18 Jul 2019	59.0	Appointed	Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA
27 Sep 2019	59.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, USA

MicroData Summary
William Michael Joensen
Bishop William Michael Joensen
(born 8 Jul 1960)
Bishop of Des Moines

Ad Limina - January 2020: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Waterloo, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa
Ordained Priest Nativity, Church, Dubuque, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa
Ordained Bishop St. Francis of Assisi, Church, West Des Moines, Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Des Moines.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B. †
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Michael Owen Jackels
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ralph Walker Nickless
Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa
Bishop Thomas Robert Zinkula
Bishop of Davenport, Iowa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Michael Owen Jackels (2005)
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Archbishop Joseph Fred Naumann (1997)
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (1985)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Scott Edward Bullock (2024)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Waterloo, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa
Ordained Priest	Nativity, Church, Dubuque, Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa
Ordained Bishop	St. Francis of Assisi, Church, West Des Moines, Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q65645755

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 18 Jul 2019
mn/ob: CB, 18 Jul 2019
c2: CB, 19 Aug 2019
c34: CB, 19 Sep 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 241, Number 20,244
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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