Bishop Anthony Gerard Bosco †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1927		Born
7 Jun 1952	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 May 1970	42.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 May 1970	42.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Labicum
30 Jun 1970	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Labicum
2 Apr 1987	59.6	Appointed	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
30 Jun 1987	59.9	Installed	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Jan 2004	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Jul 2013	85.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
Anthony Gerard Bosco
Bishop Anthony Gerard Bosco
(born 1 Aug 1927, died 2 Jul 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg

Event Place
Birth Place New Castle, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest St. Paul, Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop St. Paul, Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

a priest for 61.0 years
a bishop for 43.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Francis Dearden †
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
John Joseph Cardinal Wright †
Cardinal-Priest of Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Vincent Martin Leonard †
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bishop John Bernard McDowell †
Titular Bishop of Tamazuca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Joseph Cardinal Wright † (1947)
Cardinal-Priest of Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti
Archbishop Richard James Cushing † (1939)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
William Henry Cardinal O’Connell † (1901)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Larry James Kulick (1992)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop William Joseph Winter (1989)
Bishop Thomas Joseph Tobin (1992)
Archbishop Giuseppe Antonio De Andrea † (2001)
Bishop Lawrence Eugene Brandt † (2004)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q573285

Source(s):

d: CB, 3 Jul 2013
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 533
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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