Bishop Paul Bernard Bird, C.Ss.R.

Bishop of Ballarat, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jul 1949		Born
11 Feb 1968	18.5	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
17 May 1975	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
1 Aug 2012	63.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia
16 Oct 2012	63.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ballarat, Australia

MicroData Summary
Paul Bernard Bird
Bishop Paul Bernard Bird C.Ss.R.
(born 17 Jul 1949)
Bishop of Ballarat

Ad Limina - June 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Newcastle
Ordained Bishop Saint Patrick, Cathedral, Ballarat, Diocese of Ballarat

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Ballarat.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Thomas Toohey †
Bishop of Maitland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Denis James Hart
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Peter Joseph Connors
Bishop Emeritus of Ballarat
Bishop Leslie Rogers Tomlinson
Bishop of Sandhurst

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Denis James Hart (1997)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop George Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Melbourne
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:
Archbishop Shane Anthony Mackinlay (2019)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 105470864
WikiData: Q2058888

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 1 Aug 2012
c2+: CB, 15 Aug 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Number 17,602

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