Bishop John Thomas Toohey †

Deceased

Bishop of Maitland, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jan 1905		Born
30 Nov 1927	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
11 Mar 1948	43.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Maitland, Australia
11 Mar 1948	43.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Verinopolis
4 Apr 1948	43.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Verinopolis
4 Mar 1956	51.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Maitland, Australia
24 Sep 1975	70.6	Died	Bishop of Maitland, Australia

MicroData Summary
John Thomas Toohey
Bishop John Thomas Toohey
(born 30 Jan 1905, died 24 Sep 1975)
Bishop of Maitland

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney
Ordained Priest Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney
Ordained Bishop Saint John, Pro-Cathedral, Maitland, Diocese of Maitland
Death Place Maitland, Diocese of Maitland

a priest for 47.8 years
a bishop for 27.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Michael Kelly †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ernest Victor Tweedy †
Archbishop of Hobart
Bishop Edmund John Aloysius Gleeson, C.Ss.R. †
Bishop of Maitland

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Paul Bernard Bird, C.Ss.R. (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Edward John Doody † (1948)
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † (1957)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 478145662623205031064
WikiData: Q64684201

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1948, Number 22
c1: CB, 28 Jun 2022

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