Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)

Motto: Caritas Christi Urget Nos

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Aug 1958		Born
25 May 1996	37.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 Mar 2011	52.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
22 Mar 2011	52.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Eguga
5 May 2011	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Eguga
31 Oct 2016	58.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
30 Nov 2016	58.2	Installed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
4 Apr 2019	60.6	Succeeded	Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
28 Mar 2023	64.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)
30 May 2025	66.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Agaña, Guam, Pacific (Oceania)

MicroData Summary
Michael Jude Byrnes
Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes
(born 23 Aug 1958, died 30 May 2025)
Archbishop Emeritus of Agaña

Ad Limina - February 2012: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, USA
Ordained Priest Most Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, USA
Ordained Bishop Most Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, USA
Death Place Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan, USA

a priest for 29.0 years
a bishop for 14.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Adam Joseph Cardinal Maida
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Allen Henry Vigneron
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Clayton Nienstedt
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bishop John Michael Quinn
Bishop of Winona, Minnesota

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Allen Henry Vigneron (1996)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Adam Joseph Cardinal Maida (1984)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Pio Laghi † (1969)
Titular Archbishop of Mauriana
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 259333982
WikiData: Q1928070

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Mar 2011
ob/c2+: CB, 25 Apr 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 206, Number 17,049
ab: Bollettino, 31 Oct 2016
i: CB, 14 Nov 2016
s: Bollettino, 4 Apr 2019
op.loc: CB, 22 Oct 2022
r: Bollettino, 28 Mar 2023
d: CB, 30 May 2025

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