Archbishop Samuel Joseph Aquila

Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA

Motto: Quodcumque Dixerit Facite

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Sep 1950		Born
5 Jun 1976	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Denver, Colorado, USA
12 Jun 2001	50.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
24 Aug 2001	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
18 Mar 2002	51.4	Succeeded	Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
29 May 2012	61.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
18 Jul 2012	61.8	Installed	Archbishop of Denver, Colorado, USA

MicroData Summary
Samuel Joseph Aquila
Archbishop Samuel Joseph Aquila
(born 24 Sep 1950)
Archbishop of Denver

Event Place
Birth Place Burbank, CA
Ordained Priest Immaculate Conception, Cathedral Basilica, Denver, Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado
Ordained Bishop Saint Mary, Cathedral, Fargo, Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Denver.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop James Vincent Casey †
Archbishop of Denver, Colorado
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn †
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Denver, Colorado
Bishop James Stephen Sullivan †
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota

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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Stephen Jay Berg (2014)
Bishop Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Novelo (2016)
Bishop Steven Robert Biegler (2017)
Bishop James Robert Golka (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Robert Dwayne Gruss (2011)
Bishop John Thomas Folda (2013)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 309564524
WikiData: Q554731

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 29 May 2012
i: CB, 29 May 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 164, Number 14,028
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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