Bishop William Martin Morris

Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Oct 1943		Born
28 Jun 1969	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brisbane, Australia
20 Nov 1992	49.1	Appointed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
10 Feb 1993	49.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
2 May 2011	67.5	Removed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia

MicroData Summary
William Martin Morris
Bishop William Martin Morris
(born 8 Oct 1943)
Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba

Ad Limina - March 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bardon

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Toowoomba.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Henry Joseph Kennedy †
Titular Bishop of Simingi
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C. †
Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush †
Archbishop Emeritus of Brisbane
Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby †
Archbishop of Brisbane

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C. † (1969)
Bishop Emeritus of Toowoomba
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Ernest Putney † (1995)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 308698661
WikiData: Q2576479

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
r: Bollettino, 2 May 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133, Number 12,001
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143

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