Bishop John Edward McCarthy †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Austin, Texas, USA

Motto: Lord I Come To Do Your Will

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jun 1930		Born
26 May 1956	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Galveston, Texas, USA
23 Jan 1979	48.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
23 Jan 1979	48.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Petina
14 Mar 1979	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Petina
19 Dec 1985	55.4	Appointed	Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA
25 Feb 1986	55.6	Installed	Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA
2 Jan 2001	70.5	Retired	Bishop of Austin, Texas, USA
18 Aug 2018	88.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Austin, Texas, USA

MicroData Summary
John Edward McCarthy
Bishop John Edward McCarthy
(born 21 Jun 1930, died 18 Aug 2018)
Bishop Emeritus of Austin

Event Place
Birth Place Houston, Diocese of Galveston, Texas
Ordained Bishop Ste Therese, Church, Houston, Diocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Death Place Austin, Diocese of Austin, Texas

a priest for 62.2 years
a bishop for 39.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Wendelin Joseph Nold †
Bishop of Galveston, Texas
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Louis Morkovsky †
Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lawrence Michael De Falco †
Bishop of Amarillo, Texas
Bishop Patrick Fernández Flores †
Bishop of El Paso, Texas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Louis Morkovsky † (1956)
Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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:
Bishop Michael James Sis (1986)
Bishop Daniel Elias Garcia (1988)
Bishop David Austin Konderla (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Joseph Anthony Fiorenza † (1979)
Bishop Thomas Joseph Flanagan † (1998)
Bishop Patrick James Zurek (1998)
Bishop Vincent Michael Rizzotto † (2001)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 36156452
WikiData: Q1699934

Source(s):

c1: CB, 26 Feb 2015
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 51, Number 3,576

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