Archbishop Joseph Anthony Fiorenza †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jan 1931		Born
29 May 1954	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Galveston, Texas, USA
4 Sep 1979	48.6	Appointed	Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, USA
25 Oct 1979	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, USA
6 Dec 1984	53.8	Appointed	Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
18 Feb 1985	54.0	Installed	Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
29 Dec 2004	73.9	Appointed	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
28 Feb 2006	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA
19 Sep 2022	91.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA

MicroData Summary for Joseph Anthony Fiorenza
(WikiData: Q582622)
Archbishop Joseph Anthony Fiorenza (born 25 Jan 1931, died 19 Sep 2022) Archbishop Emeritus of Galveston-Houston

Ad Limina - May 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Beaumont, Diocese of Galveston, Texas
Ordained Bishop San Angelo, Diocese of San Angelo, Texas
Death Place Houston, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Buried Place (Original) Forest Park Lawndale, Cemetery, Houston, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas

a priest for 68.3 years
a bishop for 42.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Wendelin Joseph Nold †
Bishop of Galveston, Texas
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores †
Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Louis Morkovsky †
Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Bishop John Edward McCarthy †
Titular Bishop of Petina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores † (1970)
Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas
Archbishop Luigi Raimondi † (1954)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Joe Steve Vásquez (1984)
Bishop Brendan John Cahill (1990)
Bishop Oscar Cantú (1994)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Enrique San Pedro, S.J. † (1986)
Bishop Curtis John Guillory, S.V.D. (1988)
Bishop James Anthony Tamayo (1993)
Bishop Vincent Michael Rizzotto † (2001)
Bishop Joe Steve Vásquez (2002)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael David Pfeifer, O.M.I. (1985)
Archbishop José Horacio Gómez Velasco (2001)
Archbishop John Michael Miller, C.S.B. (2004)
Bishop Oscar Cantú (2008)
Bishop George Arthur Sheltz † (2012)
Bishop Michael Fors Olson (2014)
Bishop Brendan John Cahill (2015)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Beaumont, Diocese of Galveston, Texas
Ordained Bishop	San Angelo, Diocese of San Angelo, Texas
Death Place	Houston, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Buried Place (Original)	Forest Park Lawndale, Cemetery, Houston, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Texas

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 28 Feb 2006
c1: CB, 26 Feb 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 57, Number 4,261

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