Bishop Paul Joseph Swain †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Sep 1943		Born
31 Mar 1983	39.5	Converted
27 May 1988	44.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
31 Aug 2006	62.9	Appointed	Bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
26 Oct 2006	63.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
12 Dec 2019	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
26 Nov 2022	79.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

MicroData Summary
Paul Joseph Swain
Bishop Paul Joseph Swain
(born 12 Sep 1943, died 26 Nov 2022)
Bishop Emeritus of Sioux Falls

Ad Limina - March 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Newark, NY, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Priest Saint Raphael, Cathedral, Madison, WI, Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Sioux Falls, Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Death Place Sioux Falls, Diocese of Sioux Falls, South Dakota

a priest for 34.4 years
a bishop for 16.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Cletus Francis O’Donnell †
Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn †
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Robert James Carlson
Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan
Bishop William Henry Bullock †
Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn † (1986)
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bishop Howard James Hubbard † (1977)
Bishop of Albany, New York
Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Donald Edward DeGrood (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2060483

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 31 Aug 2006
c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Number 15,276
r: Bollettino, 12 Dec 2019
op.loc: CB, 24 Oct 2022
d: CB, 27 Nov 2022

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