Bishop Elliott Griffin Thomas †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jul 1926		Born
6 Jun 1986	59.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA
30 Oct 1993	67.2	Appointed	Bishop of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA
12 Dec 1993	67.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA
29 Jun 1999	72.9	Resigned	Bishop of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA
28 Feb 2019	92.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands, USA

MicroData Summary for Elliott Griffin Thomas
(WikiData: Q1332239)
Bishop Elliott Griffin Thomas (born 15 Jul 1926, died 28 Feb 2019) Bishop Emeritus of Saint Thomas

Event Place
Birth Place Pittsburgh, PA, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands
Ordained Bishop Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands
Death Place St. John Neumann Residence (Stella Maris), Timonium, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original) Western No. 1, Cemetery, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands

a priest for 32.7 years
a bishop for 25.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands
Principal Consecrator:
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey †
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.
Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts
Bishop Donald James Reece
Bishop of Saint John’s-Basseterre, Virgin Islands (British)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey † (1967)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Archbishop John Francis Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Neil Sebastian Ricardo Scantlebury (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Adalberto Cardinal Martínez Flores (1997)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Pittsburgh, PA, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest	Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands
Ordained Bishop	Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands
Death Place	St. John Neumann Residence (Stella Maris), Timonium, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original)	Western No. 1, Cemetery, Saint Thomas, Diocese of Saint Thomas, American Virgin Islands

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 136, Number 12,183
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d/loc: CB, 1 Mar 2019
loc: CB, 4 Mar 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
op.loc: CB, 31 Oct 2022

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