Bishop Peter John Elliott †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

Titular Bishop of Manaccenser

Motto: Parare Vias Eius

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Oct 1943		Born
19 Feb 1973	29.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
30 Apr 2007	63.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
30 Apr 2007	63.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Manaccenser
15 Jun 2007	63.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Manaccenser
3 Nov 2018	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
6 Aug 2025	81.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

MicroData Summary
Peter John Elliott
Bishop Peter John Elliott
(born 1 Oct 1943, died 6 Aug 2025)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne

Ad Limina - October 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne
Ordained Priest Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne
Ordained Bishop Saint Patrick, Cathedral, Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne
Death Place Box Hill, Hospital, Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne

a priest for 52.4 years
a bishop for 18.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Denis James Hart
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
George Cardinal Pell †
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Ambrose Battista De Paoli †
Titular Archbishop of Lares

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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/83977
VIAF: 89070285
WikiData: Q2076062

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 30 Apr 2007
op/c1: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 189, Number 15,434
r: Bollettino, 3 Nov 2018

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