Bishop John Anthony Kelly †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

Titular Bishop of Zucchabar

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Oct 1915		Born
28 Jul 1940	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
16 Nov 1972	57.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
16 Nov 1972	57.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Zucchabar
21 Feb 1973	57.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Zucchabar
19 Aug 1986	70.8	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
24 Jul 1987	71.7	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

MicroData Summary
John Anthony Kelly
Bishop John Anthony Kelly
(born 27 Oct 1915, died 24 Jul 1987)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne

Event Place
Birth Place South Yarra
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, Cathedral, Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne

a priest for 46.9 years
a bishop for 14.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Daniel Mannix †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Neil Cullinane †
Titular Bishop of Flumenzer
Bishop Ronald Austin Mulkearns †
Bishop of Ballarat

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge (1974)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q16563417

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,076
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 98, Number 8,430

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