Bishop William Joseph Wright †

Deceased

Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Oct 1952		Born
Oct 1976³	23.9	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Sydney, Australia
20 Aug 1977	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
4 Apr 2011	58.4	Appointed	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia
15 Jun 2011	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia
13 Nov 2021	69.0	Died	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for William Joseph Wright
(WikiData: Q1724921)
Bishop William Joseph Wright (born 26 Oct 1952, died 13 Nov 2021) Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle

Ad Limina - October 2011: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Ordained Priest St. Mary's, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newcastle West, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
Death Place Maitland, Hospital, Maitland, Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle

a priest for 44.2 years
a bishop for 10.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
George Cardinal Pell †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael John Malone
Bishop Emeritus of Maitland-Newcastle
Bishop Peter Andrew Comensoli
Titular Bishop of Tigisi in Numidia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

George Cardinal Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Brian Gregory Mascord (2018)

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: CB, 12 Jun 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 206, Number 17,077
d: CB, 13 Nov 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 11 Jul 2022

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