Bishop Thomas Joseph O’Brien †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Nov 1935		Born
7 May 1961	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tucson, Arizona, USA
9 Nov 1981	45.9	Appointed	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
6 Jan 1982	46.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
18 Jan 1982	46.1	Installed	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
18 Jun 2003	67.5	Resigned	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
26 Aug 2018	82.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Phoenix, Arizona, USA

MicroData Summary for Thomas Joseph O’Brien
(VIAF: 38583758; WikiData: Q1518834)
Bishop Thomas Joseph O’Brien (born 29 Nov 1935, died 26 Aug 2018) Bishop Emeritus of Phoenix

Event Place
Birth Place Indianapolis, IN, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ordained Priest St. Meinrad, Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) Saint Francis Catholic, Cemetery, Phoenix, Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona

a priest for 57.3 years
a bishop for 36.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Paul Clarence Schulte †
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora
Archbishop Lucas (Luiz) Moreira Neves, O.P. †
Titular Archbishop of Feradi Maius

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop James Sean Wall (1998)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerald Andrew Gettelfinger (1989)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Indianapolis, IN, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ordained Priest	St. Meinrad, Archabbey, St. Meinrad, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original)	Saint Francis Catholic, Cemetery, Phoenix, Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona

Source(s):

d: CB, 26 Aug 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 71, Number 5,690
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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