Bishop Lawrence Eugene Brandt †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

Motto: Ignis Caritatis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Mar 1939		Born
19 Dec 1969	30.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
2 Jan 2004	64.7	Appointed	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
4 Mar 2004	64.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
24 Apr 2015	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
8 Jun 2025	86.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
Lawrence Eugene Brandt
Bishop Lawrence Eugene Brandt
(born 27 Mar 1939, died 8 Jun 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - December 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Charleston, WV, Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia
Ordained Priest San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Greensburg, Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Buried Place (Original) Catholic, Cemetery, Greensburg, Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania

a priest for 55.4 years
a bishop for 21.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Aloysius Hickey †
Titular Bishop of Taraqua
Principal Consecrator:
Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony Gerard Bosco †
Bishop Emeritus of Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Bishop Donald Walter Trautman †
Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali (1985)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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:
Bishop Lawrence Thomas Persico (2012)
Bishop Edward Charles Malesic (2015)
Bishop Larry James Kulick (2021)
Archbishop Kevin Stuart Patrick Randall (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1809171

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Number 14,542
r: Bollettino, 24 Apr 2015
op.loc: CB, 25 Oct 2022
d: CB, 8 Jun 2025

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