Bishop Andrew Gregory Grutka †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Gary, Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Nov 1908		Born
5 Dec 1933	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
29 Dec 1956	48.1	Appointed	Bishop of Gary, Indiana, USA
25 Feb 1957	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gary, Indiana, USA
9 Jul 1984	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Gary, Indiana, USA
11 Nov 1993	84.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Gary, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
Andrew Gregory Grutka
Bishop Andrew Gregory Grutka
(born 17 Nov 1908, died 11 Nov 1993)
Bishop Emeritus of Gary

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Joliet
Ordained Bishop Holy Angels, Cathedral, Gary, Diocese of Gary, Indiana
Death Place Valparaiso, IN

a priest for 59.9 years
a bishop for 36.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Francesco Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Patrick Cody †
Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley †
Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Carl Frederick Mengeling † (1957)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Alfred Cuthbert Gumbinger, O.F.M. Cap. † (1966)
Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley † (1971)
Archbishop Daniel William Kucera, O.S.B. † (1977)
Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/109402
VIAF: 311273993
WikiData: Q2022199

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1957, Number 15

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