Bishop John Raymond Gaydos †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

Motto: With a Shepherd’s Care

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Aug 1943		Born
20 Dec 1968	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
25 Jun 1997	53.8	Appointed	Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
27 Aug 1997	54.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
21 Nov 2017	74.2	Resigned	Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
6 Sep 2025	82.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary
John Raymond Gaydos
Bishop John Raymond Gaydos
(born 14 Aug 1943, died 6 Sep 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City

Ad Limina - November 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Jefferson City, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri
Death Place St. Agnes Home, Kirkwood, MO, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Buried Place (Original) Resurrection Catholic, Cemetery, Jefferson City, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri

a priest for 56.7 years
a bishop for 28.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Francis Frederick Reh †
Bishop of Saginaw, Michigan
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael Francis McAuliffe †
Bishop Emeritus of Jefferson City, Missouri
Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb †
Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (1985)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
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 Edward Matthew Rice (2011)
Archbishop William Shawn McKnight (2018)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Jefferson City, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri
Death Place	St. Agnes Home, Kirkwood, MO, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Buried Place (Original)	Resurrection Catholic, Cemetery, Jefferson City, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q928370

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 330
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,038
r: Bollettino, 21 Nov 2017
op.loc: CB, 26 Oct 2022
d: CB, 6 Sep 2025

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